2023 | M. Plouzeau Chinon Rive Gauche | Loire Louis de Belair 10% Petite Sirah and 3%

10% Petite Sirah and 3% Mataro

Stunning elegance on the nose

Notes of summer meadow

In the finish grated grapefruit peel

The slightly grippy finish features a parting note of violet

2023 | M. Plouzeau Chinon Rive Gauche | Loire Louis de Belair 10% Petite Sirah and 3%It had been a few vintages since I last drank a bottle of Marc Plouzeaus Rive Gauche bottling of Chinon. His newly released 2023 version is outstanding, coming in at an even thirteen percent octane and offering up a complex and an utterly classical bouquet of cassis, dark berries, tree bark, gravelly soil tones, cigar smoke and a hint of menthol in the upper register. On the palate the wine is bright, full bodied, focused and classy, with a lovely