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2022 Vouvray, Sec, Domaine Vincent Carême, Loire

  • White
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Chenin Blanc
Ready - youthful
Rebecca Gibb MW
92/100
Product: 20221368237
2022 Vouvray, Sec, Domaine Vincent Carême, Loire

Description

Vincent’s Vouvray Sec is a benchmark for the appellation, drawn from a variety of vineyards with different soil types and expositions. It is made entirely in used, large-format oak barrels, adding complexity without any oak character. The 2022 vintage was warm, reflected in the ripe yellow apple fruit on the nose and pleasing mid-palate generosity.

The exuberance is kept in check by a spine-tingling acidity and dry, grippy chalk texture that grabs at the sides of your tongue and leaves you reaching for the next sip.

Drink now - 2032

Adam Bruntlett, Buyer, Berry Bros. & Rudd (June 2024)

Colour White
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2022
Alcohol % 13.5
Maturity Ready - youthful
Grape List Chenin Blanc
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Vincent Carême

Critics reviews

Rebecca Gibb MW 92/100
The 2022 Vouvray Sec is a perfumed, tender style. It is a serious wine that's bone dry with a grown-up element of tannins providing muscle and structure. In its youth, it offers up fresh apples, pears and peaches, nodding to the warmer season. It is quite tense right now and needs some time to relax. But it was a shorter bottling. I think this needs a bit of time to come out.Domaine Vincent Carême is one of the appellation’s leading lights. Starting in 1999, Vincent Carême was a member of the younger generation implementing what was viewed as artisanal ideas in the early 2000s, including organics and low sulfur regimes. Carême is now part of the Vouvray furniture, and these seemingly new ideas are now integral to the appellation’s ascendancy. Both a traditional method and a very successful pét-nat are in the domaine range. When it comes to still wines, Carême’s taste preference is for dry styles, and that’s what you’ll mostly find in his chalky cellars. The winery cat recently died, but a dog, Tarzan, has now installed chez Carême.Drink 2024 - 203Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous.com.com (October 2023)
Drink 2024 - 2030
Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous.com (Oct 2023)

About this wine

Chenin Blanc

Chenin Blanc is an important white grape variety planted in the Anjou-Saumur and Touraine regions of the Loire Valley and the most widely planted varietal grape in South Africa. In the Loire it produces high quality dry wines in Savenniéres, and luscious sweet, dessert wines in Coteaux du Layon, Bonnezeaux and Quarts de Chaume. In Vouvray and Montlouis it can be dry, medium dry, or sweet, and still or sparkling. Whether dry or sweet, the best Loire Chenin Blancs possess marvellously concentrated rich, honeyed fruit together with refreshingly vibrant acidity. It is Chenin Blanc's high acidity that enable the wines to age so well.
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Vincent Carême

Vincent Carême is a leading light of the Vouvray appellation who set up his domaine from scratch in 1999. His is not a family business – his parents are cereal farmers – but his rise to prominence has been nothing short of meteoric. A pioneer of organic viticulture in the Loire, he teaches at the Lycée Viticole in Amboise and acts as a mentor to many younger growers in the region.
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