• Roseville Chase, NSW
Thierry Germain Domaine Des Roches Neuves Clos 2015

PLU: 10905

Variety Chenin Blanc
Country France
Region Loire
Alc. Content 13.0%
Year 2015
Volume 750 mL

Notes
Importer's Notes: Biodynamic. 100% Chenin Blanc rooted in the walled clos of a priory that dates back to the 11th century. The soil consists of a 30cm layer of sandy clay over Senonian-era limestone bedrock called Pierres de Champigny. It's the same rock that was used to build the Chateau Champigny. Germain acquired this historic site in 2007 and has been steadily replanting at a density of 10,000 vines/hectare. He practices selection massale, mixing plants to ensure he does not get a monodimensional profile of this terroir. Volumes are tiny with handpicked grapes whole bunch pressed and then fermented for two months in a single 400-litre oval cask for nine months on lees.Lying in Parnay, just outside Saumur (heading towards Chinon), the Clos Romans is a site Germain describes with boyish enthusiasm, as 'magic'. Having made the pilgrimage to this Clos again earlier this year, he'll get no argument from us. Sitting high above the river, the vine's roots burrow down through the limestone, towards Parnay's famous troglodyte dwellings below. The wine it creates certainly has an enchanted feel that is hard to pin down. This is dramatically tense, crystalline, mineral-bound and soaringly pure Chenin, with dazzling, earthy and stone fruit notes, fine, old vine structure and a lifted, saline finish. Hard to pin down. To give you an idea just how good... Germain does a contra with this wine with a revered Côte de Beaune Domaine that we won't mention here to be a little discrete. The wines are swapped, bottle for bottle, with a Puligny Grand Cru, even though this Burgundian produces some much sought after premier cru wines. Enough said.

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