2019 Famille Joly Clos de la Coulee de Serrant
Reviewed by Stephan Reinhardt
Issue Date 15th Oct 2021
Source October 2021 Week 2, The Wine Advocate
Rating 98 points
Release Price NA
Drink Date 2021 - 2070
Produced from seven hectares of vineyards aged from 40 to 50 years old,Joly’s 2019 Clos de la Coulee de Serrant opens with a clear, bright yet enormously dense and complex bouquet of crushed stones, herbs and fine but dense and multilayered fruit that needs air to open up, yet it shows its class immediately. On the palate, this is a rich and intense, full-bodied, tight and concentrated yet elegant and stimulating salty Chenin with firm tannins intertwined with a crystalline acidity that carries this highly complex icon wine to a long and compact yet elegant finish. There is a remarkable purity, freshness and energy in the aftertaste that you sometimes might have missed in former vintages.