Perfectly balancing a low-key richness with a lucid clarity, this finely-tuned wine is bound with a sinew-y coil of acidity that cuts with phenomenal length. Find out more.
About the Wine
Ancestral-method Chenin made using the earliest harvest selection for its abundance of mouthwatering acidity. The two years sur lattes before disgorgement has taken the wine from quenching pet-nat into altogether more refined territory.
Open aromas of ripe orchard fruits take on a zing of sherbet as perlant pinprick bubbles dance on the tongue. A hairline wire of lingering acid pulls through ripe flesh and chalky minerals, into an extended saline finish, the brioche and spice of the lees an assured counterpoint to the clean, linear fruit.
From the first passes of the vineyards in early to mid September, the grapes were pressed directly and then bottled with no additions right at the start of 2024, while fermentation was still in motion. Feeling the benefit of a warm, balanced 2023 vintage this everything you’d hope for in a sparkling wine made from this noble grape.
Magnums available too, while they last!
About Thomas Puéchavy
Thomas farms his 3 hectares organically and the vines vary in age from 20 to 80 years old. Sitting directly between the estates of Vouvray royalty, Domaine Gaston Huet and Clos Naudin, Thomas is something of the underdog. Fortunately, they too have been practising organic and biodynamic vineyard work for many years now, so they are good neighbours to have. The soils here differ from the majority of the region in that the limestone dominates over clay, contributing to that tightly-wound coil of acid and crystalline orchard fruit that characterises his wine.
In the cellar the grapes are pressed directly into barrels and given as much time as they need before bottling, with no filtration or additions at any stage. The finished wines span the full spectrum, from sparkling, through fresh and dry to oxidative and demi-sec. We have a couple of wonderful cuvées from the 2020 and 2021 vintages to begin, hopefully with more to follow in the future. They are fascinating expressions of the region that have made a big impression on us - we look forward to sharing them with you too, while they last!
