Vouvray Moelleux: Domaine du Clos Naudin (Foreau), 2015 & Moelleux Réserve, 2016

Tasting 27 November. Pairing #4

Sweet Treasures
by Dick Sard

The sweet wines of Vouvray, in the hands of one of the regions premiere vignerons, may rightly be viewed as treasures: they are rare, their flavors grow in complexity, finesse, and elegance with age (and patience), and yet even in their youth, they offer a tasting experience unlike almost any other sweet wine. Given the range of exotic fruit flavors - quince, apricot, pear, pineapple, blood orange, pink grapefruit, and the richness of residual sugar - for the Moelleux, about 70gms, for the Reserve, about 130gms, it may seem unlikely to describe these wines as light in mouthfeel, but that’s precisely what makes them so compelling, a treasure to open, share, and remember.