{"id":4488,"date":"2012-12-11T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2012-12-13T17:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T17:10:36","slug":"lionel-gosseaumes-exceptional-loire-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/12\/lionel-gosseaumes-exceptional-loire-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Gosseaume&#8217;s Exceptional Loire White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bring a bit of real summer to this dark time of year with some of this amazing white. It includes a variety\u00a0which\u00a0might test even the authors of the new great tome <a title=\"Wine Grapes by Jancis Robinson MW &amp; Dr Jos\u00e9 Vouillamoz\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jancisrobinson.com\/articles\/a201209261.html\"><strong>&#8216;Wine Grapes&#8217;<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0(Jancis Robinson MW, Julia Harding MW\u00a0and Swiss botanist Dr Jos\u00e9 Vouillamoz). This is the first vintage of this blend from Lionel Gosseaume, and the first time I have ever encountered the grape <strong>&#8216;Meslier Saint Francois&#8217;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Climat No. 2 Lionel Gosseaume\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2009-CLIMAT-NO-2-47-23-29-N-1-19-52-E-Domaine-de-Pierre-14915-00.html?pack=18650&amp;producer=1482\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"2009-CLIMAT-NO-2-47-23-29-N-1-19-52-E-Domaine-de-Pierre\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009-CLIMAT-NO-2-47-23-29-N-1-19-52-E-Domaine-de-Pierre.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaandsandeman.co.uk\/wine\/2009-CLIMAT-NO-2-47-23-29-N-1-19-52-E-Domaine-de-Pierre-14915-00.html?pack=18650&amp;producer=1482&amp;page=\">2009 CLIMAT NO. 2 47\u00b023&#8217;29&#8221; N, 1\u00b019&#8217;52&#8221; E Domaine de Pierre<\/a>\u00a0\u00a312.95 single bottle, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a311.95 &#8216;case&#8217; price<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loire guru Jim Budd also got very excited about it early this year, calling it &#8216;<strong>My most interesting wine of Loire Salon 2012&#8242;. <\/strong>We expected to sell it with great success in the summer, but it closed up after bottling, and has only now returned to form. Tasted again today and it&#8217;s now showing all the class and style which got us so excited in January last\u00a0year. Lovely nose with twining scented aromas of lemon, elderflower, passion fruit and honeysuckle, and all this continues onto the palate with sherbety brightness in a full body. A half and half blend of Meslier Saint Fran\u00e7ois with Sauvignon.\u00a0And at this price a bargain too &#8211; not to be missed. A lovely aperitif, it would go well with smoked salmon or eve slightly spicy \/ oriental flavours.<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a title=\"Jim's Loire - My most Interesting Wine of the Loire Salon 2012\" href=\"https:\/\/jimsloire.blogspot.co.uk\/2012\/02\/my-most-interesting-wine-of-loire-salon.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>My most interesting wine of Loire Salon 2012: Climat No 2<\/strong> &#8211; Lionel Gosseaume has finally bottled his Meslier Saint-Fran\u00e7ois, an old grape from Touraine which has virtually disappeared. It can be very productive and once used to be exported to Germany to make sparkling wine because of its high acidity. Lionel has blended his Meslier Saint-Fran\u00e7ois, whose yield he limited to 45 hl\/ha, with an equal amount of Sauvignon Blanc. It was aged for two years in an old foudre. Climat No2 has rich, very ripe opulent fruit but well balanced with marked acidity and is fascinatingly different. Very limited production \u2013 only 2000 bottles.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Jim Budd.<\/span><\/h6>\n<address>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gosseaume-vineyard-blog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4502\" title=\"Gosseaume vineyard blog\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-2207a.kxcdn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Gosseaume-vineyard-blog.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring a bit of real summer to this dark time of year with some of this amazing white. It includes a variety\u00a0which\u00a0might test even the authors of the new great tome &#8216;Wine Grapes&#8217;,\u00a0(Jancis Robinson MW, Julia Harding MW\u00a0and Swiss botanist Dr Jos\u00e9 Vouillamoz). 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