Loire Valley
Cheverny "La Caillère" - 2023 - Thierry Puzelat
Clos Tue-Boeuf
A wine of freshness and fruit, with notes of blackcurrant and raspberry... Palate: simply mouthwatering, a cuvée with volume and length.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Cheverny
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.4 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
A wine principally made of Pinot Noir from 35-year-old vines farmed organically and planted on flinty clay soil, on a 1.35 ha plot, harvested manually. Natural vinification: whole bunches, three weeks of semi-carbvonic maceration, pressing is slow and gentle to preserve the fruit, 11 months of aging in Burgundian barrels and casks that have seen several wines. Bottled at the Estate on the 6th of August 2024 without fining or filtration, just a micro-dose of sulphur!
Thierry Puzelat
Thierry Puzelat took over the family estate a few decades ago, 13 ha in Touraine, in the Loir-et-Cher. Time and a series of encounters would put him on the path to natural wines. In 1999, he decided to vinify for hismself, and to stop taking the easy route of a “guaranteed” income from the local wine cooperative. Once decided, he went all in, determined to produce wines without artifice,...
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