2017 Salon des Vins de Loire – Sunday 5th February

 Pierre-Marie Luneau, Domaine Luneau-Papin, 

Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine

Chris 'Dr Loire' Kissack 

tasting Luneau's Muscadet 

Bertrand Minchin, Menetou-Salon and Valençay

Bertrand was particularly badly hit by frost in Menetou in 2016

making virtually no wine.

Was impressed by Bertrand's 2015 Fumet and 2015 Honorine 

– two Menetous from very different terroirs

 

Pierre-Henry Pellé, Domaine Pellé
Menetou-Salon and Sancerre

Anne Pellé, Domaine Pellé
Menetou-Salon and Sancerre

The Pellés were badly hit by 2016 frosts in Menetou-Salon

 Xavier Weisskopf – maker of very precise and fine Montlouis

Hardly surprising that both Carine and Stéphane Sérol 

(Domaine Sérol) are smiling – 2016 was a 

very good vintage in the Côte Roannaise 

Jean Teissedre, Domaine des Berioles

Saint-Pourçain (above and below). Jean is a talented 

young producer. I particularly 

liked the 2016 Tressalier  

Emmanuel Ogereau creating a silent 

and impressive revolution at Domaine Ogereau, 

Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay (Anjou)

Pascal Cailleau, Domaine de Sauveroy, also in Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay

When I first started coming to Anjou 

and the Salon des Vins de Loire Pascal 

had just taken over the family domaine. 

Pascal continues to be enthusiastic and making good wine