2018 Champalou Vouvray Cuvée des Fondraux

Community Tasting Notes (5) Avg Score: 89.8 points

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  9/22/2022 - valecnik Does not like this wine: 88 Points

  If you had handed this to me and told me it was a dessert wine, I'd have believed you. It's nowhere near syrupy or cloying or even heavy, but the honeyed sweetness is for real. Seems more than off-dry to me. There is good acidity for balance, and some nice minerality, but I found the sweetness distracting the entire time. As a dessert wine, yummy. As a dry white, it was at odds with what I wanted or expected. Points for being made well within the style they intended, but not my thing.

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  4/11/2021 - sethebarlow Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I always love this wine. Ample acidity and fruit, perhaps a little sweeter than past years, but not overpowering.

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  11/24/2020 - JJYoyo Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Surprising amount of honey on the palate - tasted almost Demi-sec. This is not a dessert wine though: actually went well with smoked salmon of all things. I would suggest this with food, I think accompaniment brings out the best of this wine. Bright nose of citrus and apple. Honey and candied lemon on the palate. Nice acid that does not dominate runs through it. Very nice Vouvray.
  Score : 90. Relative to expectations: +

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  8/16/2020 - sethebarlow Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Very pleasant. Exactly as Vouvray should be. Yellow and green orchard fruit, honeyed sweetness, persistent acid. Was perfect with shrimp etouffée.

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  1/4/2020 - Heynetty wrote:

  WSET Diploma - Class Two - Grape Experience; 1/4/2020-1/5/2020; 1/4/2020-1/5/2020 (San Francisco Holiday Inn Golden Gateway): Tasted Open
  
  A: Pale lemon
  N: Medium intensity nose of blossom, Lemon, peach, quince, apple, cheese? and ginger
  P: Medium dry, high acid, medium (+) body, medium alcohol, medium (+) intensity and finish
  C: Incosisitency in the wine with an asymmetry between the intensity on nose and palate. Length and intensity are a good addition with the five descriptive clusters making this a complex, very good quality wine.
  Suitable for ageing given the high acid to keep it fresh and the start of tertiaries indicates this may become more complex with age when the primaries begin to age. This should improve over the next 3-5 years.

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