Florent Cosme: Tasting & Drinking
Having had a quick tour of the cellars with Florent Cosme (and by quick I mean it – this is a tiny cave) we tasted his wines together, kicking off with two sparkling cuvées from the 2013 and 2012 vintages, the Pétillant Naturel and Brut respectively. Both were attractive wines, although I preferred the softer attack of the latter to the rather austere and bone-dry style of the former, although both are good wines and attractive examples of what can be achieved in difficult vintages, even when lacking the most plush facilities and without having copious amounts of time on your hands.
Of the sec cuvée Coup de Fougue the 2013 vintage was superior; when tasting against 2012 (two very difficult years) I usually find I prefer the more recent vintage, the frost and mildew of 2012 having done much to hold back quality in Vouvray. The 2011 vintage was also difficult for Vouvray, although here the major influence on the character of the wine was the result of it going through malolactic fermentation, giving it a very warm, funky, hay-and-straw character which was out of keeping with the style demonstrated by the rest of the portfolio.
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