Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2025 | Clos Henri Vineyard

Name: Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2025 | Clos Henri Vineyard
Brand: Clos Henri
SKU: 849
Price: 19.3 EUR
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19.30 €

Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2025 | Clos Henri Vineyard

19.30 €

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Clos Henri Vineyard was established in 2000 by Jean-Marie and Rémi Bourgeois, heirs to a winemaking dynasty rooted in Chavignol, Sancerre since 1696 — ten generations of Loire Valley mastery transplanted to the foothills of Marlborough's Wairau Valley. Their 44 hectares of vines straddle the ancient Wairau Fault at elevations between 85 and 150 metres, where Otira glacial stones meet wind-blown Waimaunga clays to create a terroir of rare mineral tension.

The Estate 2025 is fermented in stainless steel and aged for three months on fine lees with bâtonnage.

Identificación
El Estate Sauvignon Blanc 2025 es un vino de la bodega Clos Henri, una casa fundada en el año 2000 por Jean-Marie y Rémi Bourgeois. Estos herederos de una tradición vitícola de diez generaciones originaria de Chavignol y Sancerre (Loira, Francia), buscaron trasladar su enfoque al hemisferio sur para replicar la precisión de sus vinos clásicos.

Procedencia y elaboración
La propiedad se ubica en las estribaciones sur del Valle Wairau, en la región de Marlborough, Nueva Zelanda. El viñedo, situado a una altitud entre 85 y 150 metros, presenta una geología singular donde la Falla del Wairau divide la propiedad, alternando suelos de piedras glaciales de Otira con arcillas eólicas Waimaunga. Esta combinación imprime una tensión mineral característica al vino.

En cuanto a su elaboración, la fermentación del lote de 2025 se realiza exclusivamente en acero inoxidable. Tras la fermentación, el vino reposa durante tres meses sobre lías finas con bâtonnage (remoción de lías) antes de su embotellado.

Perfil y puntuaciones
El objetivo de la bodega en esta zona es expresar el Sauvignon Blanc con la misma exactitud que en su tierra natal. El uso de lías finas y el método de fermentación en acero buscan mantener la pureza y la tensión mineral derivada del suelo.

James Suckling ha evaluado este vino con una puntuación de 94 puntos.

Cierre
Se trata de un blanco joven que busca traducir la complejidad pedológica de Marlborough mediante una vinificación sobria y técnica, resultando en un vino con una estructura mineral distintiva dentro de la oferta neozelandesa.

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Learn more about Clos Henri

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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