I'll save a bottle for you. Will be in Brazil for the World Cup.
It's a long story, but my first Jasnières was back in 1999, a bottle imported by Yapp Bros. I was a bit jaded with Chenin Blanc by then, to be frank, and then all of a sudden there was this crazy wine in my glass. There was all the usual Chenin stuff, and then all the usual silex notes, and the chalk undertow, and then wham! A finish that made you want to take another sip, like the first drag of a cigarette after a few months (I smoke perhaps once every two years now). Up till then I'd thought no Chenin Blanc could surpass the 1983 Coulée de Serrant, but Joël Gigou proved otherwise. There are very, very few wines where my taste memory is still so vivid after a decade.
I think the 2008 Duo Majeur is very, very special indeed.
