Fun Loire Pinot Noir

[Saina Nieminen]

Cave de Gortona Vin de Pays du Val de Loire Pinot Noir 2008

9,99; 12% abv. From Thauvenay-en-Sancerre, 15-20yo vines, hand-picked, ambient yeasts, no oak.

Very light color. Quite a delightful scent: pure Pinosity, nice tart red berries, but ripe and sexy. It also has the slightest touch of funk/sweat - in such amounts that I won't be the only one to enjoy it! Delightfully light with good acidity - lighter than the scent promised, but I don't mind lightness. It gained weight nicely once opened. For 10 this is a wine I will buy again: it has character and Pinosity. Good wine.

And only 9,99 in the most expensive wine shop in the world??? Either Alko made a huge mistake in buying this, or I got a positively off bottle.

 

[SteveTimko]

Pardon my ignorance:
Why a Vin de Pays on this wine? Thauvenay-en-Sancerre does not count as Sancerre?

 

[Claude Kolm]

originally posted by SteveTimko:
Pardon my ignorance:
Thauvenay-en-Sancerre does not count as Sancerre?

No: http://www.kobrandwineandspirits.com/maps/flash/023_poiully_san.php

Otto -- Do you know anything about Cave de Gortona? No listing for it in the French yellow pages. Is it a negociant brand or a brand for some other producer?

 

[Saina Nieminen]

The only further piece of information that I managed to dig up was that the Finnish importer calls the producer "Sarl Eric Louis" instead of Cave de Gortona.

 

[Claude Kolm]

Thanks. Yes, there is an Eric Louis who appears to be an individual producer at 26, rue de la Mairie in Thauvenay.