Domaine des Sables Verts - Saumur-Champigny Glouglou 2022

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Producer	Domaine des Sables Verts
Country	France
Region	Loire Valley
Subregion	Saumur-Champigny
Varietal	Cabernet Franc
Vintage	2022
Sku	12017211
Size	750ml

  

• Varietals: Cabernet Franc
• Vineyard: “Les Dares”, “Bonneveaux” “Perruchers” & “Le Bourg”
• Soil: Deep clay-limestone soil, green sands, and tufa
• Viticulture: Practicing organic
• Vinification: Fermentation with natural yeasts in stainless steel vats. Relatively short maceration (to accentuate the glouglou fruit!).
• Aging: Aged in vats for 5 months then bottled with only a few grams of SO2 added

An easy-drinking "glouglou" style red with tangy red fruits of raspberry and blackcurrant combined with a nice freshness. Ripe and charming, it's filled with pure and juicy blackberry and cherry fruit flavors. The wine is balanced, round and silky, with gentle tannins. Pairs well with red meat, grilled chicken, charcuterie or Mediterranean cuisine. Serve with a little chill.

Domaine des Sables Verts is a relatively new project owned and run by a young couple, Caroline Meurée and her husband, Hervé Maligne. Caroline spent time at Chateau Lamothe in Bordeaux. Her husband worked as well in St Emilion, and also in Burgundy and at Mas Amiel in the Rousillon, all under the tutelage of Olivier Decelle. Their project was started in 2019, when the couple took over a sprawling estate covering 16.5 HA spread amongst 5 villages with 33 different plots, with an average vine age of 40 years. They own vineyards planted in the early 1950s, and where their neighbors are none other than Clos Rougeard and Thierry Germain!

The estate is comprised mostly of Cabernet Franc (15.5 Ha) and the remainder 1 Ha in Chenin Blanc. The name, Sables Verts, or “green sand”, comes from unique greenish sand that is a component in many of the best vineyards of Saumur-Champigny, and mixes with varying amounts of Clay-Limestone and Limestone-Silica in the topsoil which ultimately sits atop the Mother rock of limestone tuffeaux that underlies much of the region. This green sand is rich in glauconite which gives the Cabernet Franc in this area both its freshness along with a sense of concentration.

The cellars themselves are also dug into the tuffeaux and form a cool, damp home for raising the wines.

In the vineyards, Caroline and Hervé work as naturally as possible. They have had their HVE (Haute Valeur Environnementale) since the outset, but are also working toward full organic certification as well. At harvest, grapes are all harvested by hand, and fermented with natural yeasts.