2017 | Clos Rougeard | Saumur-Champigny

On the nose, expect aromas of ripe cherries, blackberries, and plums, accompanied by herbal and floral notes. The palate reveals a medium to full body wine, with well-integrated tannins and a balanced acidity.

Producer Information

Clos Rougeard is an highly regarded wine estate in Saumur Champigny near the village of Chacé in the Loire Valley. The estate was taken over by brothers Bernard (better known as "Nady") and Charly Foucault in 1969, but had been in their family since 1894. Clos Rougeard has become famous as a cult producer because of the high quality and extremely limited release of its wines – around 2500 cases annually. All of its wine is sold by allocation only, mostly to restaurants, and very little outside of France. Added to this, the Foucaults' shunning of publicity further added to the estate's cult status. Clos Rougeard produces only four wines: a single white wine from 100-percent Chenin Blanc called Brézé, a Saumur (blanc); and three 100-percent Cabernet Franc reds: Saumur Champigny Le Clos, Les Poyeux and Le Bourg. Terroir and history are especially important at Clos Rougeard; the Le Bourg is produced from a single-hectare (2.5-acre) plot of 70-year-old Cabernet Franc vines, and Les Poyeux comes from a parcel of land that was first cultivated in 1664. The Foucault brothers' approach to their wine was fundamentally one of minimum intervention, extremely low yields, no chemicals or pesticides, hand-harvested fruit, natural yeasts, no filtering, no fining, and gravity bottling after up to 24 months in oak. Clos Rougeard, however, is not labeled as organic: the brothers consider their methods to be merely the way their family has been making wine for generations. Following Charly's death in 2015, the estate was sold to French construction and telecommunications magnates, the Bouygues brothers (who also run Saint-Estèphe's Château Montrose), in 2017.

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