Domaine du Collier
2019 Domaine du Collier Saumur Blanc Charpentrie
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$255.00
Description
WINEMAKER: Antoine Foucault
REGION: Loire Valley, FR
VARIETY: Chenin Blanc
VITICULTURE: Organic/Biodynamic
"Always an incredible wine, this is produced from an old vine parcel (>100 years) in the lieu-dit of 'La Charpentrie' in Brézé. Deeper and more sombre than the wine above always with a fine precision. Thrilling, complex scents of lime, flowers and pineapple give way brightly citric, concentrated palate, underpinned by chalky, mineral elements. This has more power and tension than the Saumur Blanc (if that is even possible!) - it is simply a wine for the ages. This rare bottling is one of the great white wines of France." - Andrew Guard
Within a short period of time Antoine Foucault is already making some of the most exciting wines in the Loire Valley. The Domaine du Collier was created in 1999 by Antoine (son of Charly Foucault from the famed Clos Rougeard) and his wife Caroline. Having worked at Clos Rougeard for four years and still at the young age of 26 he took the opportunity to buy four-hectares of vines (through his family) in the commune of Brézé in the best lieu-dit of ‘La Ripaille’. The estate comprises 6 hectares with the vast majority of the estate planted to Chenin Blanc (including some 100 year old vines) and just under a hectare of Cabernet Franc.
Antoine is dedicated to natural viticulture, without the use of chemical treatments, fertilizers, or weed killers. The harvest is manual with strict sorting carried out in the vineyards. In his deep cellar, Antoine does not use commercial yeast, and doesn’t treat the wine with sulphur until bottling. His cellar is underground and actually part of Clos Rougeard. It is renowned for being very cold and this protects the wines in élevage and I think goes some way to explaining the glacial development of the wines in bottle. The end results are brilliant and it is probably no surprise that demand for them is very high and as a result they can be very hard to find.
2019 Domaine du Collier Saumur
$255.00
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