Loire Valley
Premier Nez - 2020 - Marie Thibault
Un Saumon dans la Loire
Perfumed and deep nose with notes of stewed pear, quince, honey, lemon zest, mineral backbone. Palate: lots of volume, a beautifully crafted wine to cellar or to pair with a Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine, an apple pie...
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2024 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chenin from 60-year-old vines grown organically and planted on hillsides on the southern slopes of the Indre. Very draining soils with presence of flint, clay-limestone subsoil. Manual harvest. Vinification: direct pressing of the whole bunches, fermentation in 220, 400 and 600-liter barrels that have seen one wine on the one hand, and in sandstone jars and concrete vats on the other hand. 24 months of aging in a cellar dug out of tufa stone. Bottled in July 2022 with a micro-dose of sulfur (2 grams/hl).

Marie Thibault
Marie Thibault has almost always known, while not having any family ties with wine, if not for the pleasure of hosting friends around a good bottle, that she would like to be a winemaker in the Loire Valley "when she’d be a grown up”... She definitely made it, after a beautiful journey and a clear path in the Loire Valley vineyards. After her degrees in biology and oenology, Marie started...
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