2011 Domaine du Viking Vouvray Tendre

Community Tasting Notes (1) Avg Score: 89.5 points

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  11/9/2015 - Endodr Likes this wine: 89 Points

  I found this Vouvray while looking for white wines to serve on Thanksgiving. This Chenin Blanc has a golden yellow color and a nose of white flowers, baking spice, and honeysuckle. It tastes fruity with stone fruit, mainly nectarine and apricot nectar, but also almonds and marzipan. There is flinty minerality and crisp acidity that comes through as citrus flavors.
  
  There is an online article reporting that Lionel Gauthier, the domain's owner and producer, "looks more Scandinavian than Loire with his blond hair and thick build, so friends nicknamed him 'The Viking'." He thus renamed his property in 1989, Domaine du Viking. This article also claims that he works out of his garage cellar and uses local chestnut wood tanks and barrels; further noting that "oak imparts too many unwanted flavors to his wines." It does have a slightly odd woodsy flavor that I find interesting, as well.
  
  Overall, this bottle is fruity, semi dry, crisply acidic, and mineral laden. This wine is varietally consistent and a nice effort for a demi-sec vouvray.

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