Charles Joguet Cuvee Terroir Chinon Italy fine tannins

fine tannins

This is Rioja as it existed before richness and extraction became virtues

She was the first female winemaker at Domaine Drouhin

composted soil

That image may sound like I juice too much kale

Charles Joguet Cuvee Terroir Chinon Italy fine tanninsTheres a loamy, rain kissed morning in Chinon in this glasspluck up a fistful of gravelly earth from the Loires right bank and youll smell what the 2021 Charles Joguet Chinon Cuve Terroir unfurls first: that cool, mineral chalkiness that feels like wet stone and cedar under a cedar hedge. Then the fruit arrivesnot bold, but lithely insistenta ribbon of wild red cherry and raspberry draped over crushed violets and a bramble of herbs de Provence,