Domaine Clos Rougeard, Saumur-Champigny 'Le Clos', 2017
Domaine Clos Rougeard, Saumur-Champigny 'Le Clos', 2017
- 75cl
- Red Still
- Cabernet Franc
- Organic
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Optimal drinking window: Now - 2037
Clos Rougeard Saumur-Champigny ‘Le Clos’ 2017 is one of those wines that quietly commands attention. As the rarest red cuvée from this iconic Loire estate, Le Clos is a wine of tremendous precision and poise, sourced from a tiny walled vineyard just next to the domaine itself.
For the uninitiated, Clos Rougeard is one of France’s most revered names, its cult status earned not by hype but by decades of fastidious, thoughtful winemaking. The Foucault brothers - Charly and Nady - were pioneers of organic viticulture in the Loire, long before it became fashionable, and their low-intervention approach in the cellar has helped define what Saumur-Champigny can be at its finest.
What the critics say:
"This is worth every penny of its price tag. It has a hushed intensity. It’s mellow, fitting into itself like an old library: dust and shelves, polished coppery red wood and the smell of a warm fireplace. Parchment and pages and ink and leather-bound books. It's sweet and smoky, concentration and power pulsing through the fruit in waves. Damsons, cloves and tobacco-smoke tendrils, cigars. The tannins fan fine and fragrant, across and through, a plethora but in exquisite restraint. This is a real beauty. One of the best wines of the tasting."
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