Domaine du Collier Saumur Blanc La Charpentrie 2022

Name: Domaine du Collier Saumur Blanc La Charpentrie 2022
Brand: Sacred Thirst Selections [STS]
SKU: SF-1-STS--093026-36
Price: 149.99 USD
Availability: InStock

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These Chenin vines are well over a hundred years old, and they were headed for the scrap heap until Antoine Foucault bought them. Saving them was the right call. La Charpentrie is the denser, more powerful of Domaine du Collier's two Saumur Blancs, and it's the wine that best explains why this is a Chenin house first. Foucault is the son of the late Charly Foucault of Clos Rougeard, the most mythologized address in the Loire. At 26 he set out on his own, founding Collier in 1999 with Caroline Boireau on the limestone hillsides of Brézé, where two-thirds of the estate is planted to Chenin. The family religion came with him: organic farming, all work done by hand, native yeasts, and fermentations governed by nothing but the cellar itself. For the Chenin, that cellar was dug between the 10th and 12th centuries. After that the wine is left alone in barrel for a long élevage, with no racking and no sulfur until bottling. The whole domaine makes only about 1,200 cases a year, so there's never much of this to go around.

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Antonio Galloni

97 points

"The 2022 Saumur Blanc La Charpentrie offers wonderful precision and an other-worldly cloud of Chenin Blanc. While tender and silken, there's an innate power coursing through its fine core, providing line and persistence. I don't use the word minerality willy-nilly, but if there is a wine that evokes that response, here it is. The finish is incredibly long with a salty string of acidity and a lingering chalky texture." —Rebecca Gibb MW

Robert Parker

96 points

"Crafted from ancient vines (close to 100 years), the 2022 Saumur Blanc La Charpentrie unveils in the glass with a bright, elegant bouquet of fennel, lemon oil, anise, spices and spring flowers. Medium to full-bodied, ample and charming, with a pure, vibrant and enveloping core of fruit, it concludes with a mineral, saline and crystalline finish. This is worth hunting down." —Yohan Castaing

More about Domaine du Collier

Antoine left Clos Rougeard in 1999 to start Domaine du Collier, where he hit it out of the park from the get-go, making Burgundian wines of breadth and intensity—a style that does call to mind the Clos Rougeard. We've enjoyed incredible bottles going back to 2001 and 2002! And everyone agrees, the wines are just getting better and better as the vines get older and Antoine gains experience.

Domaine du Collier is just under seven hectares of vines planted on the hillsides of the Breze commune in Saumur. Just like his father and uncle, he works his vineyards organically and supports the natural progress of each vine growing deep into the appellation’s famed tuffeau bedrock. He has several parcels of very old vines with his La Charpenterie vineyard boasting ones over a hundred years old. Planted to two-thirds Chenin and one-third Cabernet Franc, the Domaine produces a scant 1200 cases a year.

Antoine does not believe in the use of chemical fertilizers in the vineyards and biodynamic principles are employed. All vineyard work and harvesting is done by hand, only native yeasts are used in the cellars, and all fermentation is controlled naturally by the underground cellar conditions. Antoine uses two cellars. The high humidity cellar built in the 10-12th century is used for his Chenin and the low humidity, colder cellar built in the 17th century is used for his Cabernet Franc. A combination of new and old barrels are used including Stockinger foudres. Elevage is slow and long lasting at least 24-36 months without racking.

Antoine's ability to truly understand and express his terroir is evident in the wines, which have garnered the attention and admiration of Cabernet Franc devotees and Chenin cognoscenti with their power, mineral character, and ethereal lift. These are complex wines with power and concentration without sacrificing delicacy and precision. Transcending their varieties, the wines are clear expressions of Breze’s limestone terroir.

Wine Details

Grape Variety

Chenin Blanc
Vintage

2022
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Organic
Style

Earthy , Minerally
Sweetness

Dry
Body

Medium Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast chicken with morels, turbot or scallops in beurre blanc, pork loin with apples and mustard, or aged Comté.

Tasting Profile

Expect old-vine Saumur Chenin at its most concentrated: quince, baked apple, lemon peel and beeswax over a chalky, limestone-driven core. Long barrel ageing typically adds texture and a subtle nutty note rather than overt oak, with a dense, medium-bodied palate, firm acidity and a long, dry, saline finish. Think the weight of good white Burgundy with Chenin's bite.