Still marketed as "Touraine AC" because the Chinon appellation has been extended only since the 2016 vintage, the 2015 Touraine Clos de la Plante Martin offers an intense yet pure and chalky bouquet with a pretty...

The 2019 Vouvray “Pétillant” Brut from Domaine Huët is an excellent wine on both the nose and palate. The bouquet is bright and complex, offering up a fine constellation of quince, apple, a touch of lanolin, chalky soil...

The finely framed 2022 Vouvray Sec provides calm and tenderness as well as a fine powdery chalky texture on the finish. It exudes a sense of effortlessness. While it's light in body, it has plenty of substance. Wild...

Beautiful green freshness permeates a ripe yet firm core of apple and star fruit in this seductive, fleshy version, with notes of smoked almond and salted green herbs. Caressing in feel, with lime pith giving the well-cut...

An offbeat style, with good richness and concentration to the mirabelle plum, crushed apple, acacia and honeycomb flavors. Silky and broad on the palate, with citrus oil and serious herbaceousness weaving through. The...

Shows soft, supple chamomile and baked apple notes framed by pleasingly bitter tannins. A distinctive, earthy white, showing some evolution, with ground ginger, warm hay and spices infusing the broad palate, while citrusy...

The 2021 Saumur L'Échelier offers up an exotic, ripe bouquet of lemon oil, spices and ripe orchard fruits intertwined with a flinty-driven character. Medium to full-bodied, tense and straight, it’s satiny and ample with a...

Starting off gently, with a nose of light citrus and flowers, and hints of smoke and the sea, once in the mouth in comes the acidity and the terroir with a boom, in a rush of slicing minerality and mouth-tingling...