The 2014 Les Vieux Clos displays an intense golden-yellow color and opens with a deep, intense and concentrated, herbal-scented bouquet of ripe and stewed seed and stone fruits intermixed with flinty notes from crushed slate and volcanic rocks. Full-bodied, elegant and juicy-intense on the palate, this is a silky textured, beautifully balanced and firmly structured Chenin with very fine, Pinot-like tannins and floral as well as herbal notes on the sustainable and elegant finish. This is a rich yet also tight, refined and crystalline Savennières of unique class and style. Tasted in May 2020. - Stephan Reinhardt