Charles Joguet | Loire | Clos de la Dioterie, Monopole AOC | 2019 | 750ml | bio

Description

Product description for Charles Joguet Clos de la Dioterie, Monopole AOC 2019 (bio)

Wine Information

The Clos de la Dioterie is the domaine’s most famous vineyard. It was first mentioned in the Middle Ages, when it was still fully enclosed, and is located not far from the Vienne River, directly on the winery’s edge. The relatively flat vineyard has a clay topsoil and limestone and mica subsoil. The vines are 90 to 100 years old. The Cabernet Franc undergoes a cool pre-fermentation for ten days at 10°C. The skin maceration in wooden vats lasts around four weeks at temperatures not exceeding 21°C. Once alcoholic fermentation is complete, the first-run wines and the best press wines are blended for malolactic fermentation. The French oak barrels are partially replaced every year, so that around one-fifth of the barrels are new and one- to four-year-old. The vintages then mature for 15 to 16 months in wood, a further six months in tanks for harmonization, and are then bottled.

Colour

slightly transparent garnet red

Nose

The 2019 Clos de la Dioterie presents itself deep and full with a Cabernet Franc nose straight out of a picture-perfect book. Only a wine from an excellent vintage can achieve this: so elegant yet down-to-earth, so fine yet tart. There is subtle pyrazine, plenty of limestone and chalk, along with the fruit of blackberries, barberries, cranberries, and some currants with stalks. The red fruit is underpinned by bell peppers, tomatoes, and fine wood.

Palate

The palate reveals all its power combined with great elegance. The tannins seem rounder than in Les Varennes, but are still very young and, above all, demonstrate the wine’s potential. The fruit here is – as is typical of Joguet – clear and transparent, and the Chinon is dense, silky, and already very perfect.

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