Domaine Perrault-Jadaud: Tasting & Drinking
My first visit to meet Tanguy Perrault and Anne-Cécile Jadaud was in 2014, when I was able to taste a small selection of wines, including the most recent vintage of the Vouvray Pétillant Haut Les Choeurs and several vintages of the Vouvray Les Grives Soûles. Some of these vintages had been very difficult ones for the vignerons of Vouvray, 2013 having been blighted by hail (although some surprisingly good dry wines resulted) and 2012 was hit by mildew (a vintage when the results were much more questionable in many cases).
Looking at these two vintages first, Tanguy’s wines are good efforts. The yields in these two vintages were each about 15 hl/ha, compared to a target of 30-35 hl/ha in a ‘normal’ vintage, an indicator of the trials of the two seasons. In 2012 the Vouvray Pétillant Haut Les Choeurs – this really is a vintage for sparkling wines, to be honest – is good, while the Vouvray Les Grives Soûles cuvée transmits the acidity of the vintage. The 2013 was superior, but Tanguy’s talents really shone through in 2010, a more benevolent vintage, and this was a very good wine in its own right.
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