Domaine Pellé: Tasting & Drinking
The Domaine Pellé wines I have tasted indicate a domaine style that is vibrant, rich in flavour and full of vivacity, particularly with reference to the white wines. These are great wines, not just stop-gaps to replace increasingly expensive Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, but delicious wines in their own right. Having first encountered the wines many years ago it has been wonderful to reacquaint myself with them on several occasions since.
As for the reds, I once described these as having the rusticity of small-town Pinot Noir about them. Today they have most certainly improved, and if any evidence of this is required I would proffer the 2012 Les Cris, a fine and nicely-honed Loire Valley Pinot Noir which will match many from much grander appellations. This remains one of the top domaines, if not the top domaine, in Menetou-Salon. (5/8/04, updated 29/12/09, 8/10/14)
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