2004 Blanc Fumé de Pouilly, Silex, Domaine Didier Dagueneau, Loire

2004 Blanc Fumé de Pouilly, Silex, Domaine Didier Dagueneau, Loire

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2004 Blanc Fumé de Pouilly, Silex, Domaine Didier Dagueneau, Loire

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Along with Shire horses and huskies, the parcels of vines which make-up Didier's 'Silex' cuvee must be among his most coveted: great boulders of flint, old vines and perfect St. Andelain sites combine to deliver a voluminous and brilliantly pure wine of stature.

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Wine Advocate94/100
Ripe fruit, exceptional flint-rich soils, and lees and barrel work mark the Dagueneau 2004 Blanc Fume de Pouilly Silex, in considerable contrast with its little sibling. A nose of white peach, currant, honeydew melon, lavender, and citrus zest leads to a luscious, polished, silken-textured palate with subtle herbal pungency and lees character inflecting the wines rich base of fruit, but only the merest hint of resinous oak. Long and full in its finish, this displays a slightly sweet-sour personality with green tomato, gooseberry and citrus rind notes playing against honeyed melon and luscious white peach.
David Schildknecht - 31/08/2007 Read more

About this WINE

Didier Dagueneau

Didier Dagueneau

Domaine Didier Dagueneau is a highly acclaimed producer specializing in making exceptional Sauvignon Blanc wines in the Loire Valley. The family-run winery was founded by Didier Dagueneau, who tragically died in a flying accident in September 2008. Despite his untimely death, his legacy lives on through the extraordinary wines he crafted during his lifetime.

Dagueneau was considered a visionary who pushed the boundaries of Sauvignon Blanc production in the Pouilly-Fumé and Sancerre appellations. He firmly believed in the concept of terroir, which emphasizes the influence of a vineyard's unique environmental factors on the character of the wine. He meticulously selected the best vineyard sites and used biodynamic farming practices to showcase the terroir's expression in his wines.

Known for his innovation, Dagueneau experimented with various winemaking techniques to achieve the purest expression of Sauvignon Blanc. He used oak barrels, but not to add oak flavors to the wine; instead, he sought to enhance texture and complexity without overshadowing the fruit and terroir characteristics.

One of the hallmarks of Didier Dagueneau's wines was his focus on vineyards with Silex soil, a flinty and mineral-rich soil type found in the region. Wines produced from these vineyards exhibited a unique smoky and mineral character that set them apart from other Sauvignon Blancs.

Some of Dagueneau's most renowned wines include "Silex," "Pur Sang," and "Buisson Renard." These wines consistently received high praise from wine critics and connoisseurs and were highly sought-after in the global wine market.

After Didier Dagueneau's untimely death, his son, Benjamin Dagueneau, continued his father's legacy, taking over the winemaking duties and ensuring the continuation of the family's esteemed wine tradition.

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Pouilly-Fumé

Pouilly-Fumé

Pouilly-Fumé is a famous white Sauvignon Blanc appellation located on the right bank of the Loire River.

Compared to Sancerre on the opposite bank, the Pouilly-Fumé appellation is approximately half the size at 1,200 hectares, and tightly-focused around the villages of St Andelain and Les Loges on a fairly homogeneous, south-west facing slope. The appellation's soils are divided between limestone-rich Kimmeridgean and Portlandian (less active calcium) clay, with the cherry on the cake being the red, flinty clay soils clustered around the St Andelain knoll.

Top vineyards in Pouilly-Fumé include Les Cocques, Les Bois and Les Cornets. The result is a floral, finely-poised yet powerful nose, with a noticeably limestone-like dry palate kept taut by a fine structure. Indeed such is the stony intensity of a good Pouilly-Fumé that an increasing number of producers are ageing their best crus in French oak, to good effect.

Recommmended producers: Didier Dagueneau, Alain Cailbourdin, André Dezat and the up-and-coming Nicolas Gaudry

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Sauvignon Blanc

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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