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2019 Alexandre Bain, Pierre Précieuses, Vin de France

  • White
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Sauvignon Blanc
Ready - at best
Tamlyn Currin
17.5/20
Product: 20198242053
2019 Alexandre Bain, Pierre Précieuses, Vin de France

Description

Pierre Précieuses is Alexandre’s flagship cuvée. It is aged 38 months before release, 18 months in barrel and 20 months in stainless steel and undergoes no battonnage during this whole time. The nose is delicate with white flowers, lovely lemon and grapefruit notes, and juicy, fresh quince.

The finesse and freshness are striking on the palate, whilst having a great consistency and body. Plenty of citrus peel and grapefruit bitterness is balanced with honey, buttery notes, and some sweet spices, and it is truly complex. These bursts of intense flavours are perfectly balanced through a very lifted palate and impressive fruit precision. Utterly delicious.

Yoan Bernard, Fine Wine Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2019
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Sauvignon Blanc
Body Full Bodied
Producer Alexandre Bain

Critics reviews

Tamlyn Currin 17.5/20
Berry Bros are not exaggerating when they write, on their website, that the 'Pierre Précieuses is like no other Sauvignon Blanc you will have tasted'. It pretty much sums this wine up. And from this, the first of his wines I tasted at Berry's 'en primeur' release of Loire wine growers, was just one of four Alexandre Bain wines that I found breathtakingly thrilling. He's in Pouilly-Fumé but all the wines are labelled Vin de France. Biodynamic farming, horse ploughing, ultra-low sulphite additions and no other additions.Quince and lime-pickle nose. Wonderful bitter, earthy spices. Lime peel. Every molecule seems to light up with power and intention, purpose and focus. It's wine that is vivid with ripe fruit but chiselled by acidity and scoured by saltiness. Muscle and grunt. Very savoury, very firm. Spine-tingling.Drink 2024 - 2029Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com (November 2023)
Drink 2024 - 2029
Tamlyn Currin, JancisRobinson.com (Nov 2023)

About this wine

Sauvignon Blanc

An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp  Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves. It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.
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Alexandre Bain

Located in Pouilly Fumé, Alexandre Bain does not make traditional Pouilly Fumé style Sauvignon Blanc but something much more unique and atypical to the appellation.
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