Coulée de Serrant: Vineyard, Wines and Prices in 2026

Coulée de Serrant is a 7-hectare vineyard on the north bank of the Loire at Savennières, planted to Chenin Blanc. It has its own appellation, and one estate farms all of it: the Joly family's Vignobles de la Coulée de Serrant. The estate says monks planted the vineyard in 1130, and that the 2025 harvest was its 895th in a row (Coulée de Serrant, history).

This guide covers what the estate and the appellation rules say about the site. It also covers the March 2026 change to the appellation's name, and what the wine costs today. The prices come from Wine Labs data taken on November 4, 2026: 376 sellers in 32 countries with a live offer for Clos de la Coulée de Serrant, and 1,603 auction lots with a recorded price.

Coulée de Serrant at a glance

Sources for the vineyard figures: Coulée de Serrant, the three wines and history. Prices: Wine Labs.

The vineyard and the estate

The estate's history page says the Coulée de Serrant valley covers 7 hectares along the Loire. Louis XI is said to have called its wine "la goutte d'or", the golden drop. Dr. Joly and his wife Denise bought the property in 1960 from the baron de Craecker and restored it (Coulée de Serrant, history). Nicolas Joly left investment banking in 1977 to run the estate (Wikipedia).

Coulée de Serrant is one of the three wines the estate makes. The estate covers 30 hectares, of which 15 are planted with vines. Each wine is a dry white Chenin Blanc from a different appellation (Coulée de Serrant, the three wines):

The same page describes the soils as schist and schist-sandstone formations, with quartz. On Coulée de Serrant, the schist comes to the surface.

How the wine is made

The estate publishes its methods in detail (Coulée de Serrant, the three wines):

• Farming: the estate introduced biodynamics in 1980, and the whole vineyard has been farmed that way since 1983. Clos de la Bergerie is certified by Ecocert and Demeter.
• Harvest: pickers make three to five passes through the vineyard, usually from mid-September into early October. On Coulée de Serrant the harvest lasts three to four weeks. Botrytis affects 5% to 15% of the fruit, depending on the year.
• Fermentation: native yeasts only. There is no chaptalisation, no acidification and no temperature control, and fermentation can take several months.
• Ageing: six to eight months in oak barrels, none of them new, with one or two rackings, lees stirring and light prefiltration in most years. The wine gets a light dose of sulphur before bottling.

Earlier accounts give other dates for the start of biodynamics. Wikipedia, for example, dates the top wine to 1981 and the whole range to 1984 (Wikipedia). This guide uses the estate's own dates.

The 2026 change to the appellation name

The protected name changed in March 2026. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/727, adopted on March 19, 2026, approved an amendment that renamed the designation from "Savennières Coulée de Serrant" to "Coulée de Serrant" (EUR-Lex). The vineyard itself did not change.

The rename matters most to anyone who keeps records. Older bottles carry the former name, which was correct when they were labelled. Retail and auction listings use both names, and often add "Clos de la", "Nicolas Joly" or "Savennières". In our data, all of these resolve to one wine record. When you compare prices yourself, match on producer, wine and vintage rather than on the label text.

Prices today: retail

Wine Labs found live offers for Clos de la Coulée de Serrant at 376 sellers in 32 countries, in a standard 750 ml bottle. We took one price per seller per vintage, which gives 688 seller-vintage prices. The median is $149, and the middle half runs from $106 to $184.

The price depends on where the bottle is sold. These are the countries with at least 12 sellers of Clos de la Coulée de Serrant.

Switzerland12 sellers$175

United States125 sellers$166

United Kingdom17 sellers$156

Hong Kong16 sellers$143

Italy37 sellers$119

Japan13 sellers$107

France83 sellers$97

Live 750 ml offers, November 4, 2026. Countries with at least 12 sellers.

Country	Median	Sellers
Switzerland	$175	12 sellers
United States	$166	125 sellers
United Kingdom	$156	17 sellers
Hong Kong	$143	16 sellers
Italy	$119	37 sellers
Japan	$107	13 sellers
France	$97	83 sellers

The French median is the lowest. Prices outside the European Union include import costs. Some markets quote prices with tax included and others without, so treat the gaps as approximate.

Most offers are for recent vintages:

Older vintages are offered too, but most have fewer than 20 prices each, so we do not list them.

Prices today: auction

Clos de la Coulée de Serrant has a deep auction record. Wine Labs holds 1,603 lots with a recorded price from 46 auction houses, from October 2001 to November 4, 2026. Of these, 1,190 sold in the last five years, across 45 houses and 55 vintages. Nearly all of them (1,592) were single 750 ml bottles.

Auction volume has grown in our data, partly because we now cover more auction houses. The yearly median price has risen slowly, from $88 in 2019 to $114 in 2026.

Clos de la Coulée de Serrant, per 750 ml, buyer's premium included. 2026 runs to November 4.

Sale year	Median per 750 ml	Lots
2019	$88	46 lots
2020	$93	66 lots
2021	$107	104 lots
2022	$102	144 lots
2023	$102	187 lots
2024	$102	231 lots
2025	$109	285 lots
2026	$114	326 lots

For older vintages, the auction price rises with age. These are lots sold in the last five years, grouped by vintage decade.

Before 198040 lots$131

1980s137 lots$132

1990s288 lots$118

2000s238 lots$106

2010s364 lots$103

2020s123 lots$86

Clos de la Coulée de Serrant, per 750 ml, buyer's premium included.

Vintage	Median	Lots
Before 1980	$131	40 lots
1980s	$132	137 lots
1990s	$118	288 lots
2000s	$106	238 lots
2010s	$103	364 lots
2020s	$86	123 lots

Lots from before 1980 (40 lots) have a median of $131, but their prices vary widely. The highest single-vintage medians in the last five years were 1990 ($173, 40 lots) and 1989 ($171, 34 lots).

The other two wines also have an auction record. Clos de la Bergerie has 225 priced lots, with a median of $55 over the last five years (159 lots). Les Vieux Clos has 150, with a median of $48 (105 lots).

Retail and auction measure different things

A retail price is an asking price for a bottle in stock, usually a recent vintage, and it may include sales tax or VAT. An auction price is the result for one lot. It includes the buyer's premium but not shipping, tax or storage, and the lot's fill, label and provenance affect it.

For the same vintage, the two measures differ. We matched 25 vintages that had at least five retail prices and five auction results in the last five years. The median auction price was 0.69 times the median retail price, with the middle half between 0.57 and 0.86. In 23 of the 25 vintages, the auction median was lower. For how auction prices are recorded and normalised, see Auction Wine Prices.

Notes for buyers and sellers

• Match the wine, not the label text. The same wine appears under the old name, the new name, "Clos de la Coulée de Serrant" and "Nicolas Joly".
• Check the vintage. Retail offers are mostly 2020 to 2024. Auctions supply most older vintages, and 55 vintages sold in the last five years.
• Compare like with like. Compare retail with retail, or auction with auction. Then adjust for tax, fees and shipping.
• Large formats are rare. Only nine auction lots were magnums, too few to price separately.

See live prices and auction history in Wine Labs fine wine market data, search a vintage in Wine Labs search, or follow recent sales in the auction digest.

Data methodology: Wine Labs data, snapshot November 4, 2026, for Clos de la Coulée de Serrant, Clos de la Bergerie and Les Vieux Clos (Vignobles de la Coulée de Serrant). Retail uses live offers from online merchants and wine shops in a standard bottle format. We take the median price per seller per vintage, and count each chain once per country. Auction figures use lots with a recorded realised price, buyer's premium included and normalised to a 750 ml bottle, with mixed lots, flagged outliers and future-dated sales removed. Where a lot has no auction date, we use the sale date. All prices are in US dollars. Vineyard and winemaking details come from the estate's website as linked.