2022 Clos de Tue-Boeuf Le Petit Buisson

WINEMAKER: Thierry, Louise & Zoé Puzelat
REGION: Loire Valley, FR
VARIETY: Sauvignon Blanc
VITICULTURE: Organic

100% Sauvignon Blanc. Tue Boeuf has been purchasing and harvesting this fruit for 15 years from a nearby Cher Valley site called Petit Buisson, a single 1.4-hectare parcel of 35-year-old vines on flinty clay and limestone soils, organically farmed and hand-harvested. Fermented with natural yeasts and aged on its lees with stirring in used Burgundy barrels for 6 months; bottled unfiltered and with a minute amount of sulfur. It is beautifully fresh, tight and elegant with lovely texture and fragrance. Wonderfully refreshing, contemplative, satisfying and incredibly drinkable - if only more Sauvignon was this good..

In the early-nineties, Jean-Marie and Thierry Puzelat took over their family domaine in Cheverny, converted the farming to organic, and began making wines with native yeast and low or no sulphur additions. Three decades later and Clos du Tue-Boeuf is the definitive natural wine estate in the Loire Valley, if not all of France.