Domaine du Collier Saumur Champigny 2022

Name: Domaine du Collier Saumur Champigny 2022
Brand: Sacred Thirst Selections [STS]
SKU: SF-1-STS--093026-33
Price: 119.99 USD
Availability: InStock

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Antoine Foucault learned to make wine in Saumur-Champigny, at Clos Rougeard alongside his father Charly and his uncle Nady, so a Collier bottling under that name feels like a homecoming. In his own words, most of the stony, poor soils he farms now are better suited to white wine. That makes this red Cabernet Franc his nod back to where he started. He founded Domaine du Collier and named it after Place du Collier, where the family home sits. He brought the family discipline with him: organic farming, everything picked by hand and native yeasts only. After that the wines go into barrel and are left alone, with no racking and no sulfur until bottling, often for more than two years. The Cabernet Franc ages in a cold, dry 17th-century cellar, kept apart from the older, damper one used for the Chenin. The whole domaine makes only about 1,250 cases a year, so bottles don't turn up often. Give it some air.

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Robert Parker

91 points

"The 2022 Domaine du Collier offers up a pure, gourmand bouquet of violet, blueberries, spices and licorice, followed by a medium-bodied, pure and precise, satiny and lively mid-palate, concluding with a saline finish." —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

Cabernet Franc
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 or other wild mushrooms; pork loin with prunes; duck breast with lentils; pork rillettes and charcuterie; herb-crusted rack of lamb; aged Loire goat cheese.

Tasting Profile

Expect the classic Saumur-Champigny profile: red cherry, raspberry and dark plum, with Cabernet Franc's graphite and leafy, herbal edge. Long, unhurried barrel ageing typically gives a medium-bodied, silky texture with fine-grained tannins and bright, fresh acidity. Think of a close cousin of Chinon, the Loire's better-known Cabernet Franc, finishing dry, savoury and stony.