Château Pierre Bise - Savennières Roche-Aux-Moines 2012

Name: Château Pierre Bise - Savennières Roche-Aux-Moines 2012
Brand: Château Pierre Bise
Rating: 3.9 (10 reviews)

Savennières Roche-Aux-Moines|White wine

Loire

White

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Drink or Keep

3.9/5 (10 customers)

16/20

RVF

16/20

Bettane & Desseauve

1*Étoile

Hachette

16,5/20

Gault & Millau

"A bright, nuanced straw yellow, this 2012 offers an already open nose with notes of flowers and white-fleshed fruit. The palate is full, generous and fleshy, balanced by a fine freshness. A harmonious wine that will age well". (Le Guide Hachette des Vins 2015). With complexity, finesse and a fine balance between botrytis and minerality!

Features

Estate

Château Pierre Bise

Vintage

2012

Designation

Savennières Roche-Aux-Moines

Region

Loire

Grape varieties

100% Chenin

Terroirs

1.9 ha plot overlooking the Loire valley, steep east/south-east slope towards the Loire (acid quality) and wind (aromatic quality)

Viticulture

reasoned cultivation

Harvest

manual, by successive sorting

Winemaking

slow pressing, long fermentations (alcoholic and malolactic), no yeasting in barrels

Breeding

partial in barrels over 6 years old with stirring on fine lees

Alcohol content

14%

Residual sugars

4 g/l

Tasting & pairing

Eye

bright pale gold with green highlights

Nose

is based on a fine balance between botrytis and minerality

Mouth

precision, complexity and finesse

Serve

at 10-12°C

Open

1/2 hour before

Drink from

2015

Drink before

2028

Food and wine pairing

enjoy with grilled fish, andouillette with white wine, creamy meats...

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Wine rated (2015 guide) 16/20 (Very good wine)

Domaine rated (guide 2024) 2*Stars (A serious and recommendable production, but a little more regular and homogeneous than the previous one)

About the wine:

Another fine success, with precise tension and minerality worthy of the name.

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.

Guide Hachette des vins

Wine rated (2015 guide) 1*Star (Very successful wine)

Domaine noté Award-winning wines (Wines from this producer regularly win awards in the guide)

About the wine:

This 5.5-hectare estate, born of the merger of two family estates, has been run since 1974 by Claude Papin, one of the finest connoisseurs of Anjou terroirs and one of the region's most talented producers of both dry and sweet white wines. Not to be missed.
A bright, nuanced straw yellow, this 2012 offers an already open nose with notes of flowers and white-fleshed fruit. The palate is full, generous and fleshy, balanced by a fine freshness. A harmonious wine that will age well.

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.

Guide des Vins Gault & Millau

Rated 16.5/20 (Very good)

About the wine:

Fruity, woody, floral, spicy, empyreumatic nose. Powerful, unctuous white.

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

Wine rated (2015 guide) 16/20 (Very good wine)

About the wine:

Roche-aux-Moins offers greater volume and intensity of flavor.

Customer reviews

Customer rating

3.9/5

out of 10 reviews