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Andre Dezat
One of the most respected of Loire estates, as well as a long-standing Berry Bros. & Rudd supplier, the Dezat family's 38 hectares covers 6 villages in Sancerre and 4 in Pouilly-Fumé incorporating the key soil types of 'terres blanches' (ancient active limestone), 'caillottes' (stony clay) and 'silex' (flint).
Simon and Louis Dezat represent the fourth generation, taking the domaine to new heights by making incremental changes to improve the wine more time is spent among the vines, fine-tuning the vine, while a sorting table has been recently adopted to select only the healthiest fruit.
Their ripe understated Sancerre delivers year-in, year-out, while the Domaine Thibault Pouilly-Fume is a model of precision and elegance.
Sauvignon Blanc
An important white grape in Bordeaux and the Loire Valley that has now found fame in New Zealand and now Chile. It thrives on the gravelly soils of Bordeaux and is blended with Sémillon to produce fresh, dry, crisp Bordeaux Blancs, as well as more prestigious Cru Classé White Graves.
It is also blended with Sémillon, though in lower proportions, to produce the great sweet wines of Sauternes. It performs well in the Loire Valley and particularly on the well-drained chalky soils found in Sancerre and Pouilly-Fumé, where it produces bone dry, highly aromatic, racy wines, with grassy and sometimes smoky, gunflint-like nuances.
In New Zealand, Cloudy Bay in the 1980s began producing stunning Sauvignon Blanc wines with extraordinarily intense nettly, gooseberry, and asparagus fruit, that set Marlborough firmly on the world wine map. Today many producers are rivalling Cloudy Bay in terms of quality and Sauvignon Blanc is now New Zealand`s trademark grape.
It is now grown very successfully in Chile producing wines that are almost halfway between the Loire and New Zealand in terms of fruit character. After several false starts, many South African producers are now producing very good quality, rounded fruit-driven Sauvignon Blancs.
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One of the most respected Loire estates, the Dezat family's 38 hectares cover six villages in Sancerre and four in Pouilly-Fumé. Simon and Louis Dezat represent the fourth generation, taking the domaine to new heights by making incremental changes to improve the wine. More time is now spent in the vineyard, fine-tuning the vines, while a sorting table has been recently adopted to select only the healthiest fruit. Their ripe, understated Sancerre delivers year-in, year-out.
A cool, refined mineral nose shows subtle hints of leafiness and green fruit. This wine has great purity and restraint as is the style of André Dezat’s whites.
The body is reasonably full thanks to the warm summer of the 2015 vintage but the wine does not show tropical notes, instead it focuses on fresh citrus aromas, culminating in a delicately mineral finish. Perfect with goats’ cheese salad or poached trout.
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