Loire Valley
Cheverny "La Gravotte" - 2023 - Thierry Puzelat
Clos Tue-Boeuf
A delectable Pinot Noir, driven by its fruit... Tasting superb from the barrel, it will surely become closed for a time after bottling – will benefit from cellaring.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Cheverny
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.8 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
Pinot Noir from 40-year-old vines farmed organically, rooted in flinty clay over chalk in Blois. This 1.7-hectare parcel, planted between 1976 and 1979, includes a small percentage of Gamay, co-planted so harvested by hand together with the pinot, and co-vinified. Natural vinification: two to three weeks of maceration followed by 6 months of aging in 228L and 400L barrels, without new oak. Bottled at the estate on the 15th of March 2024, without fining or filtration, and just a micro-dose of sulfur.
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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