Menetou-Salon

Expert reviews

Tasting notes from Wine Enthusiast

This is a wine to age, with such concentration in its texture and mineral structure. It offers rich white fruits and touches of spice. The aftertaste with its apples, green fruits and hints of apricot, is fresh and still developing. Drink from 2018.

— Domaine Pellé 2014 Vignes de Ratier (Menetou-Salon) (92/100)

From a separate parcel of old vines, this rich wine is structured and dense. Citrus and herbal flavors meld easily with the mineral texture and ripe green-plum fruits. It's a wine to age, so drink from 2018.

— Domaine Pellé 2014 Les Blanchais (Menetou-Salon) (91/100)

Made from superripe grapes from old vines that have aged on lees, this is a rich, concentrated wine. Full-bodied yellow fruit and ripe pear flavors are sustained by the tight, steely mineral texture and the tangy aftertaste. This dense wine deserves to age until 2018.

— Isabelle et Pierre Clément 2014 La Dame de Châtenoy (Menetou-Salon) (91/100)

The richest wine in the Pellé range, full of super-ripe fruits with great maturity. The wine concentrates on mango and pineapple along with some fine, linear citrus acidity. Worth aging for 1–2 years.

— Domaine Henry Pellé 2008 Les Blanchais (Menetou-Salon) (91/100)

Produced from 25-year-old vines, this is a fresh as well as ripe wine, well balanced between herbal flavors and white and citrus fruitiness. It has a rounded texture that is juicy as well as full in the mouth. The wine is ready to drink.

— Domaine Chavet 2014 Menetou-Salon (90/100)

Score & price analysis

Position in the Loire

Rated below the Loire Valley median.

Grape varieties

Flavor profile

Descriptors most frequently associated with this appellation across aggregated expert reviews:

• crisp
• rich
• citrus
• apple
• tannin
• mineral
• herbal
• green

Appellation summary

Source: Wine Enthusiast expert reviews. Updated: April 14, 2026.