The 2005 "Botrytis" is one of François Pinon's finest wines..."I have tasted this cuvée much more regularly than the straight Moelleux from François over the years, and once again it does not disappoint. In the glass it displays a polished...

2020 Le Mont Moelleux 1er Trie: 12.5% alc, 91 g/l RS, 3.91 g/l total acidity, pH 3.36 The nose has a sense of polish, with sweetly grilled peach, apricot stone and honeysuckle, communicating a great purity. This is followed by...

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....

Our friend Julien Pinon produces sensational Vouvray at his estate in Vallée du Cousse and the 2025 Silex Noir is another superb example. From approximatley 40 year-old vines on soils of clay and black flint over limestone in the vineyards...

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. Unlike the other top producers in Vouvray, whose sparkling wines come...