$397.00
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Region: Loire Valley
Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc
First Glance: Smoky, Dried Herbs, Citrus, Age-worthy
The Wine:
This wine is priced above Pur Sang these days, indicating how highly the Domaine rates the vineyard and the wine. Buisson Renard is a cool mid-slope terroir on the southwest side of the Saint-Andelain hill and the soils are a mixture of clay and flint (or silex). The site was historically named Buisson Menard, as was the wine initially, but a wine writer mistakenly reviewed the wine as Buisson Renard. Renard means fox in French, and Buisson means bush, so the error gave the wine a name that sounded like ‘fox bush’. Didier Dagueneau fell about laughing and renamed the wine from the next vintage! Again, this fermented in barrel and matured in Dagueneau’s bespoke cigar-shaped barrels (450 and 600 litres). It’s layered and fleshy yet with wonderful, smoky cut and thrust and a long, racy, perfumed close suggesting dried herbs, smoke and citrus.
