The Bourgeois family has tended vines in Chavignol, Sancerre, since 1696 — ten generations of Loire mastery that Jean-Marie and Rémi Bourgeois carried to the southern foothills of Marlborough's Wairau Valley when, after twelve years of searching, they planted Clos Henri in 2000. The Estate Sauvignon Blanc blends carefully chosen parcels of Otira Glacial Stones and two windblown Waimaunga Clays at 85–150 metres altitude, across a property dramatically bisected by the Wairau Fault — a terroir as complex and storied as the family behind it.

Fermented in stainless steel and aged three months on fine lees with regular bâtonnage, the 2024 vintage was shaped by the driest Marlborough growing season in 94 years, with yields down 20–30% producing small, intensely flavoured berries and a naturally vibrant acidity; the result is a wine of real concentration and precision, offering citrus rind, green apple, white peach, and a whisper of elderflower, with a stony mineral tension that leans far closer to the family's ancestral Sancerre than to the tropical fruit profile of classic Marlborough — a character that earned it 94 points from James Suckling and 93 from Wine Enthusiast, both well deserved at €15.95.