Château Pierre Bise - Savennières Roche-Aux-Moines 2022

Bettane & Desseauve

About the domain :

This 45-hectare vineyard, 80% of which is planted with Chenin, produces all styles of white wine. René vinifies, while his elder brother Christophe works the vines. Not organic, of course, but the soils are worked "their way". In the cellar, the same care prevails, with a variety of vats of all kinds (stainless steel, cement, cylindrical, underground, Stockinger 30-hl wooden vats, etc.), capable of chiseling out nuanced, complex wines. The sweet wines are the estate's great strength, as is the series of savennières (13 hectares), impeccable in their precision. The small rosé and red cuvées are a step below, and the whites tasted this year are too irregular to retain the third BD.

Decanter

About the wine:

This young 2022 still has a long life ahead of it, but it already has a convincing aromatic profile, full of vegetal sap and orchard fruit aromas. On the palate, it's structured, intense, firm and deeply aromatic, with flavors that seem to come from stone and rock as much as fruit, and with that sense of vegetal sap and leaf infusing the wine. This is a beautifully articulated wine of singular character, from a very fine, very dry Loire vintage, and one that will certainly age well.

Guide Hachette des vins

About the domain :

This 46-hectare estate, born of the merger of two family farms, has been run by René Papin since 2010. An estate particularly renowned for the quality of its white wines, both dry and sweet. Not to be missed.

Vinous A. Galloni

About the wine:

The Savennières Roche aux Moines 2022 is remarkably dense, with full body, lovely apple nuances and floral notes. It's ripe but not overripe, nicely structured, with ripe phenolic notes that give it real bite and a good reason to make your mouth water.