Domaine Champalou Vouvray Sec Le Clos du Portail
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Le Clos du Portail is a dry (sec) Chenin Blanc from Vouvray in the Loire Valley, from the 2022 vintage. The wine stays in barrel on its lees for about a year and a half. Over that time it is regularly stirred so the lees give it body, material and complexity.
Catherine and Didier Champalou started their domaine in 1983, right after viticultural school in Saumur. They farm twenty-one hectares on clay, limestone and siliceous soils, using sustainable methods along with the lunar calendar. They plow regularly and plant cover crops between the rows. They make Vouvray in four styles: sparkling, sec, demi-sec and moelleux. Their daughter Céline has recently joined the domaine.