Loire Valley
Romorantin "Frileuse" - 2023 - Thierry Puzelat
Clos Tue-Boeuf
Nose with notes of pear, buttered apple, honeysuckle, and a hint of lime… Highly complex palate, rich, aromatic, round and structured, a bit like a slap in the face! About to be a favourite, a bottle to let settle in the cellar for a bit!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 13.1 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2031
- rock’n’roll
A 100% Romorantin cuvée, from organically farmed vines planted on a 0.9 hectare parcel, with flinty clay soils. Vines of 4 to almost 120 years old. The grapes are harvested by hand and the yields are controlled. Viticulture and winemaking are 100% natural: direct pressing, aging of 11 months in Burgundian oak barrels that have seen several wines. Bottled at the Estate on the 22nd of July 2024 without fining or filtration, zero added 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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