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About the wine
The first time we have seen any of this singular Gamay in some time, hailing from some of Bouges' oldest vines at 80 years of age. Planted in a gravelly half-hectare, wedge-shaped vineyard running along a slowly rising ridge - the 'point' that gives the wine its name.
Chiseled, immaculate, fragrant - in many ways a classical expression but at the same time so much that feels unlike a typical take on this varietal. There are all the petrichor notes of wet stones that typify Mikaël's style, but with an intriguing resinous quality to the fruit that works its way into both the perfume and the palate. A light body with intense concentration, it glows a luminous ruby with peppery, cherry fruits showing great purity and clarity.
Bunches were de-stemmed, crushed and macerated for 10 days before being transferred to old oak barrels for 18 months, with a further 3 months in steel before bottling.
About Mikaël Bouges
Mikaël Bouges works over 8 hectares of land split into various parcels dotted around Faverolles-sur- Cher in Touraine. He learned to tend vines and make wine with his father who had already established the domaine as certified organic as far back as the early 90s, so a thoughtful approach in the vineyard and in the cellar has been with him from the start. The vines sit in the vicinity of the river Cher and as a result have soils of gravelly limestone, speckled with various alluvial deposits of quartz and silex left behind from the historical flow of the water over the centuries. His trademark style is to translate this mineral aspect into the wine - they clearly speak of this typically middle-Loire terroir. In the cellar the wines ferment spontaneously and are not filtered or fined, some with just a small amount of sulphur used only at bottling, some with none at all. We feel they can be very classical in their expression; clean, bright and with incredible purity. We love to pour them for those who are in some way dubious about this very logical way of working - Mikaël’s wines tend to put paid to the sceptics. Displaying an uncanny knack for the ancestral method, Mikaël produces a couple of immaculate pét-nats made with zero additions that number some of the more easygoing and immediate of his output. He also recently began to experiment with a no-sulphur Sauvignon Blanc cuvée, to much success. His other wines are made under the Touraine AOC and display a certain typicity. Those from the younger vines are made completely in tank and are ideal for the table; the older vines see an extended élevage in old barrels and invite deeper contemplation.