philippe foreau vouvray sec 2021

"managed since 1983 by philippe foreau, an honest, discreet and inspired winegrower, the estate has a very fine winegrowing heritage of a dozen hectares, essentially located on the ""first slopes"" of vouvray, which look out over the river, on the hillside, and occupy the famous ""perruches"", these flinty clay soils, more or less deep, which cover the tufa subsoil. the perruches contribute largely to giving foreau wines this superb balance, between a structuring acidity, perfectly controlled, and a generous and caressing substance. the vines, on average forty years old, are regularly replanted by massal selection. they are cultivated according to methods that are very respectful of the living world and the life of the soil: regular ploughing, a total absence of insecticides and systemic treatments (made concrete in 2015 by the certification of the entire vineyard as organic), short pruning for a better control of the yields and, of course, constant observation to evaluate the good maturity of the grapes and the arrival of the famous botrytis that will be at the origin of the superb mellow reserves of the domaine! in the cellar, then in the ageing cellars, a fascinating maze of galleries dug by his grandfather in the 1910s, philippe foreau applies himself to preserving the integrity of the fruit and the capacity of the chenin to transmit the minerality of the terroir and to preserve a structuring freshness, allowing for the longest cellars. philippe is clearly a lover of purity and aromatic subtlety. this superb vouvray, with its mineral purity, subtlety and tapered energy, is a return to the finest of vouvray classics, after a series of sunnier vintages, with wines that were more enticing in their youth. a model of intensity, chalky tension and lemony energy. it offers perfect balance and promises great ageing potential...."