Thierry Hesnault "La Centenaire du Vauperroux"

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Grapes: Pineau d'Aunis

Region: Loire, France

Vintage: 2020

Viticulture: Organic

Soils: Tuffeau

Vinification: 3 week whole-cluster fermentation

Aging: 18 months in old barrels

Fining or Filtering: None

Sulfur: None

Notes from the Importer:  A native of Touraine, Thierry comes from a family of vignerons and travelled the world working in vineyards before returning to the Loire and working alongside the likes of Eric Nicolas and Jean-Pierre Robinot, whilst teaching at the Lycée Viticole in Amboise. He spent several years acquiring tiny parcels of the oldest vines he could find and in 2009 began making his own wine.
He now farms two and half hectares of old vines spread out in tiny parcels across the Sarthe, planted over a complex melange of clay, iron and silex. Having grown up amongst the vines, he farms with a real respect for nature, with treatments kept to an absolute minimum and a focus on channelling the energy of these remarkable old plants.

In the cave, Thierry makes wine as they did in yesteryear, without electricity or running water, relying on a deft hand, great patience and the perfect conditions for élevage the tuffeau provides to produce achingly pure wines that possess a remarkable capacity to age.

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