With the Première Côte’s shallowest, stoniest soils, its wines often synthesize Le Mont’s intense minerality with Le Haut-Lieu’s generous texture. Clos du Bourg is often the richest and most powerful wine in the lineup.
94+pts View from the Cellar – John Gilman: The 2024 Clos du Bourg Sec is an outstanding young wine and probably the finest of these three very good examples of dry Vouvray. Like the Le Mont, this wine comes in at thirteen percent octane, but it is far less bound up behind its structural elements today and offers up a stunning nose of apple, quince, lanolin, beeswax, a superb base of chalky soil and a top note of white flowers. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, deep at the core and shares the very elegant impression of the Le Haut Lieu out of the blocks, with even better depth at the core, superb soil signature and grip, lovely acids and a long, precise and beautifully balanced finish. This is a beautiful wine. 2025-2075+. 94+.