Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2024 | Clos Henri Vineyard

Name: Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2024 | Clos Henri Vineyard
Brand: Clos Henri
SKU: 794
Price: 19.3 EUR
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Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2024 | Clos Henri Vineyard

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The Bourgeois family has tended vines in Chavignol, Sancerre, since 1696 — ten generations of Loire mastery that Jean-Marie and Rémi Bourgeois channelled into Clos Henri in Marlborough, founded in 2000 after twelve years of searching. The Estate Sauvignon Blanc blends parcels on Otira Glacial Stones and two windblown Waimaunga Clays at 85–150 metres altitude, across a property bisected by the Wairau Fault. Renamed 'Estate' from the 2021 vintage when the former Petit Clos vines reached maturity.

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% and small, intensely flavoured berries.

El Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2024 es una elaboración de la bodega Clos Henri, radicada en la región de Marlborough, Nueva Zelanda. La bodega fue fundada en 2000 por Jean-Marie y Rémi Bourgeois, miembros de una familia con una tradición vitivinícola que se remonta a Chavignol, Sancerre, en 1696. Este vino representa la madurez de sus viñas, ya que el nombre "Estate" sustituyó al de "Petit Clos" a partir de la añada 2021.

La procedencia de este vino combina parcelas ubicadas en las estribaciones sur del Valle Wairau, entre los 85 y los 150 metros de altitud. El terreno se caracteriza por una mezcla de piedras glaciales de Otira y arcillas eólicas Waimaunga, situadas en un terroir singular atravesado por la Falla del Wairau. La uva principal es la Sauvignon Blanc, cuya vendimia en 2024 coincidió con la añada más seca de Marlborough en noventa y cuatro años. Esta sequía redujo los rendimientos entre un 20% y un 30% respecto a lo habitual, generando bayas de piel fina con alta concentración.

En cuanto a la elaboración, el mosto se fermentó en acero inoxidable y el vino se crió durante tres meses sobre lías finas, realizando bâtonnage. La añada 2024 recibió puntuaciones destacadas por críticos especializados: 93 puntos por Robert Parker y 94 puntos por James Suckling. Se trata de un blanco que refleja la herencia de Sancerre de sus productores adaptada al carácter único y seco de la cosecha en Marlborough.

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The name is a tribute. The Bourgeois family has grown vines in Chavignol, in Sancerre, since 1696, but it was Henri Bourgeois who in the 1950s began with two hectares on the village slopes, betting on a region that back then was nobody. The family domaine carries his name, and so does this estate on the other side of the world.

His sons Jean-Marie and Rémi joined in the 1960s and eventually set out on what the family calls the great search: twelve years travelling the planet to find a terroir capable of giving Sauvignon Blanc the precision of the Loire. They found it in 2000 in the Wairau Valley, in Marlborough, where the soils resembled Sancerre's more than any others. They bought 98 hectares of native pasture and called it Clos Henri: after their father, and after the French tradition of the enclosed vineyard.

The estate is split in two by the Wairau Fault, and that fracture is its whole point: on one side, glacial greywacke stones laid down by the Otiran glaciation some 75,000 years ago; on the other, wind-blown Waimaunga clays. Two different soils within the same property, bottled separately.

The vineyard has been certified organic by BioGro since the 2013 vintage, with biodynamic practices.

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