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Les Mémoires 2018 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loire | Vinaris
  • Les Mémoires 2018 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loire | Vinaris

Les Mémoires 2018 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loire

48.50 €




Les Mémoires 2018 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loire | Vinaris
Les Mémoires 2018 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loire
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Domaine des Roches Neuves (Thierry Germain), AOP Saumur-Champigny (Loire). 0.8-hectare walled vineyard (clos) of Cabernet Franc, planted in 1904. Crumbled flint and Late Turonian limestone soils. Low-intervention viticulture to preserve floral diversity.

Manual harvest in wooden crates. Sorting table before vatting. Fermented in an open 45-hl cement vat at 16–22 °C; fermentation completed at 24 °C. Vatting for 10–18 days.

Les Mémoires 2018 es un vino tinto de la bodega Domaine des Roches Neuves, situada en la denominación de origen Saumur-Champigny, en la región de la Loira (Francia). La añada corresponde al año 2018 y forma parte de la producción de Thierry Germain.

El viñedo que lo produce es un "clos" amurallado de 0,8 hectáreas, donde las cepas plantadas en 1904 poseen más de 110 años de edad. Los suelos se componen de sílex desmenuzado y caliza del Turoniano tardío. La viticultura se lleva a cabo bajo principios de mínima intervención para mantener la diversidad floral del entorno. La vendimia es manual y se realiza en cajas de madera, previa selección en mesa. La vinificación incluye un encubado que dura entre 10 y 18 días en tinas de cemento abiertas de 45 hectolitros, con temperaturas de fermentación controladas entre 16 y 22 ºC, alcanzando un máximo final de 24 ºC.

The Wine Advocate otorga a este vino una puntuación de 94 puntos. En su descripción, destaca por un perfil profundo, sangrino y especiado en nariz, con aromas intensos y ácidos de frutos del bosque oscuros, tabaco y cuero. En boca, se describe como un Cabernet vital y refrescante, suave, refinado y elegante, aunque con una fase inicial algo más brusca comparada con la añada 2019. La estructura presenta taninos sedosos y un final aún algo astringente y animal, con una salida que combina la frescura cítrica y la nerviosidad del sílex. Se considera un vino con gran potencial de evolución en el tiempo.

Se trata de un tinto de la Loira que combina la nobleza de viñas viejas con una elaboración respetuosa, ofreciendo una expresión de carácter mineral y fruta perfectamente madura, con una acidez que aporta viveza.

PARKER: 94

The 2018 Saumur Champigny Les Mémoires is deep, bloody and spicy on the nose, with intense but tart fruit aromas of dark berries, tobacco and leather. Still fine but for now more brutish than the highly elegant 2019. On the palate, this is a smooth, refined and elegant, vital and refreshing Cabernet from 114-year-old vines. It is remarkably finessed but still a bit astringent and animally on the finish. I am also pretty sure that this 2018 will emerge as a great Loire red wine one day. The finish, with all its vitality, citrus freshness and silex nerviness, is superb and haughty, as is the perfectly ripe fruit and the silky tannins. Tasted in June 2021.

Learn more about Domaine des Roches Neuves

Thierry Germain comes from a line of Bordeaux growers and grew up in Saint-Émilion. In 1991 he did something that took some explaining in his circle: he moved to the Loire with his wife Marie and took over a domaine founded in 1850 by the Duveau family. The people of Saumur took a while to trust a newly arrived Bordelais.

What opened the door was his apprenticeship. He trained with the Foucault brothers of Clos Rougeard, the house that defined what Loire Cabernet Franc could become; he came to call Charly Foucault his spiritual father. That is where the estate's understanding of the variety comes from.

The vineyard grew slowly and in stages. They began with twelve hectares of Cabernet Franc; in 1996 they added two of Chenin and eight more of Cabernet Franc; and in 2012 two new sites came in, Clos de l'Echelier and Les Mémoires. Today there are twenty-eight hectares across sixty-one plots, with reds in Saumur-Champigny and whites in Saumur.

The terroir alternates chalky, sandy and clay-rich soils over tuffeau, the soft local limestone, which they single out as the key to the place. Conversion to organic came in the late 1990s and biodynamics in the early 2000s.

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