Charles Joguet Cuvee Terroir ChinonTheres a loamy, rain kissed morning in Chinon in this glasspluck up a fistful of gravelly earth from the Loires right bank and youll smell what the 2021 Charles Joguet Chinon Cuve Terroir unfurls first: that cool, mineral chalkiness that feels like wet stone and cedar under a cedar hedge. Then the fruit arrivesnot bold, but lithely insistenta ribbon of wild red cherry and raspberry draped over crushed violets and a bramble of herbs de Provence,

Full-bodied with toned tannins that are tight and focused

the ownership and supervision of the farm has officially been transferred to Elio’s daughter Silvia

Kenny’s Santa Cruz County Pinot Noir is all about the terroir of Santa Cruz and its elegant and ethereal style of Pinot Noir

and unmistakably Morgon

But this is still the Loire (not Napa)

In this wine

and the quiet philosophy that lets elegant wine speak for itself

confident sense of place

clove stem

Here is a joyous

and a faint smoky note that speaks to Tuniberg’s warmer

heritage and revision — then RODA has long been one of its more eloquent narrators