2017 | Domaine du Bel Air Bourgueil | Clos Nouveau (Magnum)

The 2017 Bourgueil Clos Nouveau opens deep and concentrated on the pure, fresh and intense nose that exhibits spicy notes of blue and black berries. Silky, vital and enormously nervy on the fresh yet concentrated palate, this is an iodine and mineral Cabernet Franc with a tight structure that deserves special handling: aeration!

Reviews:

• Wine Advocate: The 2017 Bourgueil Clos Nouveau opens deep and concentrated on the pure, fresh and intense nose that exhibits spicy notes of blue and black berries. Silky, vital and enormously nervy on the fresh yet concentrated palate, this is an iodine and mineral Cabernet Franc with a tight structure that deserves special handling: aeration! I tasted the wine again after seven days, and it had certainly changed. The nose remained pure and elegant and revealed a deep, intense and complex bouquet with concentrated cherry and dark berry aromas along with iodine notes. Full-bodied, wide and generous on the palate yet firm and with a silky-elegant texture, this is a very intense and robust giant in the making that still needs years to show its true capacity. The finish is stimulating and intense. A spectacular wine, probably one of the greatest red wines from the Loire. Tasted in May 2021.

Producer Information

This is an area that deserves a shower of praise as the care taken in the vines and the quality of the wines produced is simply remarkable. At the head of the estate since 1979, Pierre Gauthier, supported by his wife, Catherine and joined in 2005 by his son, Rodolphe, masterfully manages 18 hectares of vines in organic farming (Ecocert certified since 2000) in the village of Well. Benefiting from a heritage of old Cabernet Franc which have taken root on the greatest terroirs of Bourgueil, the estate shapes wines of great intensity combining concentration, finesse and elegance. Demain les vins is proud to present the wines of the Domaine du Bel-Air which rank, without a doubt, among the greatest Loire reds. Wonders still too little known, to enjoy secretly… In 2005, the Gauthier family acquired without doubt one of Bourgueil's greatest treasures: the Clos Nouveau. This enclosure surrounded by tufa walls is the oldest in the village of Benais. It belonged to the monks of the abbey who had detected the high quality of the land on this place. After several successive purchases, the vine was planted on the plot at 19thcentury by a family of winegrowers from the village. It was in 2005, when the Clos was somewhat abandoned, that the Gauthier family decided to buy this untapped treasure. Pierre and Rodolphe Gauthier then undertook major work to rehabilitate the enclosure, notably by restoring the walls, replanting the stakes, and working the soil and the vines according to their philosophy.

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