Savennières Les Gaudrets 2018 Belargus

Professional reviews

Robert Parker (92)

Coming from several southeast-facing plots located high up the village on a plateau of aeolian sands and deep black schists, the 2018 Savennières Les Gaudrets opens with a clear, bright and lifted, delicately fruity bouquet intermingled with notes of crushed stones, white flowers and citrus fruits. Also, the stony aromas and not the fruity ones intensify with aeration and intermingle with the delicate, rather bright fruit aromas (mirabelles). The enveloping palate is silky, refined and very elegant, less powerful and tannic than the Anjou Noir but carried by a beautiful acidity and refined and balanced, with an intense, iodine and spectacularly long and also tannic-structured finish. This is a delicate and very elegant Savennières that already drinks very well, but it can be aged for up to two decades, maybe longer. Tasted in June 2021.

James Suckling (93)

Alluring, with a hint of matchstick up front that quickly blows off, followed by quince, white raspberry, verbena and green almond flavors supported by the electric acidity cutting through the suave texture. Mineral and quinine accents linger on the finish.

BOW (8.25)