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Thursday, 5 March 2009

Charles Sydney, London tasting 5 March – the new generation takes over

The younger generation of Loire producers that Charles and Philippa Sydney represent in the UK were out in force today at the annual tasting held in the vaults of the RSA in London.

Florian Mollet (right – Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé) demonstrating to Rosemary George MW that he used to be a boy scout and can make fire by banging two flints together. Bertrand Minchin (La Tour Saint Martin, Menetou-Salon and Valençay) looks on incredulously


Alexandre Cady (Domaine Cady, Saint-Aubin-de-Luigné)

Anne-Françoise Blot (Domaine de la Taille aux Loups, Montlouis, Vouvray and Bourgueil)


Jérôme Choblet (Domaine des Herbauges, Muscadet Côtes de Grandlieu)


Two new wines from Herbauges: La Roche Blanche and Château de la Pierre

Jérôme Billard (Domaine de Noblaie, Chinon) and Jean-Hubert Lebreton (Domaine des Rochelles, Anjou)
JHL: "I never understand why you bother with Chenin Blanc in Chinon – we do it so much better in Anjou!!"

Rodolphe & Ludivine Marteau (Domaine de la Bergerie, Touraine)

Jérémie Huchet (Domaine de la Chauvinière, Muscadet de Sèvre-et-Maine)

Report on tasting to follow
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4 comments:

  1. Jan-Tore Egge6 March 2009 at 14:46

    Mmm. I wish we had some of those Taille aux Loups wines over here. The CdL Saint-Aubin from Cady is available, though. And very nice, too.

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  2. Jim's Loire6 March 2009 at 14:57

    Certainly the Taille aux Loups' wines are worth searching out. Cady's sweet wines are consistently good. I thought the barrel fermented Chenin was too wood dominated – report on wines to follow.

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  3. Katrina13 March 2009 at 08:21

    Hi Jim
    Great to see the pix.
    I've just posted about this tasting on my blog. would be good to compare notes.
    bests
    Katrina

    http://katrinaalloway.wordpress.com/

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  4. Jim's Loire13 March 2009 at 17:22

    Thanks Katrina. Must get the report finished!

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