Domaine Pinon 1990 - 2022
Domaine Pinon 1990 - 2022
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Pinon, Francois & Julien 1990 Vouvray Goutte d'Or 750ml - Pre-arrival (Arrives Mid-September)
1990 was the second of two hot, dry years in the Loire, permitting the production of beautiful sweet wines from very late-harvested grapes. Generally speaking, the 1989s showed a bit more acidity, due to more moisture in the soil from...
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Pinon 1993 Vouvray Moelleux 750ml - Pre-arrival (Arrives Mid-September)
The Pinon's make superb moelleux wines and though 1993 is not known as a great year for sweet wines, there is great acidity here to balance the wonderful sweetness - it's like the great 1996 in this regard. Here is...
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Pinon 1996 Vouvray Moelleux "Cuvee Botrytis" 500ml - Pre-arrival (Arrives Mid-September)
We've had the good fortune to taste this wine a few times over the last 20 years - it's an astonishing and beautiful experience, certainly in the top rank of Loire sweet wines of the past 50 years, with it's...
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Pinon 1997 Vouvray Moelleux "Cuvee Botrytis" 500ml - Pre-arrival (Arrives Mid-September)
The 1997 vintage brought an extra bit of sweetness and a bit less acidity to the Pinon "Botrytis" making it merely sensational instead of other-worldly as in 1996. "More exotic, without going over the top" says our friend Juliette Pope...
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Pinon 2003 Vouvray Moelleux 1er Trie 750 ml - Pre-arrival (Arrives Mid-September)
The greatest producers of Vouvray such as Pinon, Huet and Foreau, made beautiful moelleux wines in 2003 despite the heat, with adequate, if not high acidities. We have tasted many Pinon 2003s which have been superb - here is Chris...
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Pinon 2018 Vouvray Moelleux 750ml
Francois and Julien Pinon made superb sweet wines in 2018, with gorgeous aromatics, beautiful ripeness, and perfect balance with a wonderful brightness and freshness despite the high levels of RS. The 2018 has approximately 50 gr/L RS and is silky,...
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Pinon, Francois & Julien 2018 Vouvray Frizzante 500ml
This is a unique, very unusual and outrageously delicious sweet Vouvray, as described by Chris Kissack in The Wine Doctor: "Poured from a 50cl bottle, this presents a modest golden hue, it not yet having taken on the rich patina of age....
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Pinon 2018 Vouvray Goutte d'Or 500ml
"Goutte d'or 2018, Raisins séchés par le vent et le soleil" The grapes were harvested in one pass on October 26th in the "L'Arpent" parcel of 55 year-old vines on clay over lower turonian limestone, facing south-west, with yields of...
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Pinon, Francois & Julien 2018 Vouvray Goutte d'Or
"Goutte d'or 2018, Raisins séchés par le vent et le soleil" The grapes were harvested in one pass on October 26th in the "L'Arpent" parcel of 55 year-old vines on clay over lower turonian limestone, facing south-west, with yields of...
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Pinon, Francois & Julien 2022 Vouvray Les Deronnieres
The grapes for "Les Déronnières" from Julien Pinon (first made in 2014) used to be included in the Silex Noir, but this wonderful vineyard, the Pinon's best parcel on a hill-top directly above their cellar, much deserves to be bottled...
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Pinon, Francois & Julien 2022 Vouvray Sec
100% Chenin Blanc. Pinon chooses vines from more clay-forward parcels for its annual sec bottling. They average 45 years old and have been certified organic since 2007. The bunches are harvested by hand, rigorously sorted and direct-pressed slowly and gently....
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Pinon 2022 Vouvray Buvez du Bon Pinon
From the estate's website: "This is the renaissance of a cuvée created by my great-grandfather - a dry wine from our oldest parcel, planted in 1945 on soils of silex noir and vinfied in our oldest foudres - old 'tonneaux'...
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Pinon, Francois & Julien 2019 Vouvray Brut
This classic dry Chenin is the perfect sparkling wine for Thanksgiving! The Chenin's of Pinon are some of the best in Vouvray due to their impeccable farming, diversity of clay, limestone, and silex soils, and deliberate, albeit low-intervention, cellar work....
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Pinon, Francois & Julien 2018 Vouvray Brut Non-Dose
François and Julien Pinon make some of the finest sparkling wines in the Loire Valley. The superb Brut Non-Dosé comes from 45 year-old Chenin Blanc vines on Turonien limestone with topsoils of clay with silex, from four parcels; Les Haut...
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