Les Mémoires 2018 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loire

Name: Les Mémoires 2018 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loire
Brand: Domaine des Roches Neuves
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Domaine des Roches Neuves (Thierry Germain), AOP Saumur-Champigny (Loire). 0.8-hectare walled vineyard (clos) with vines 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 | Domaine Roches Neuves | Loira

Identificación del vino

Bodega: Domaine Roches Neuves
Año de cosecha: 2018
Región: Saumur Champigny, Loira, Francia

Procedencia y elaboración
El Les Mémoires 2018 proviene de viñedos amurallados con una antigüedad de 114 años. Las cepas se plantaron en 1904 y crecen sobre suelos ricos en sílex desmenuzado y caliza del Turoniano tardío, junto al río Loira. La vendimia es manual, utilizando cajas de madera y una mesa de selección antes del encubado. Se realiza fermentación abierta en tinas de cemento a temperaturas entre 16°C y 22°C para extraer la mayor cantidad de aromas y sabores posibles. La fermentación finaliza a 24°C, con un encubado que dura entre 10 y 18 días.

Perfil esperado o notas descriptivas
El vino presenta aromas intensos pero ácidos de frutas oscuras como moras y arándanos, junto a notas de tabaco y cuero. En boca es suave, refinado y elegante, con una textura sedosa que refleja la perfección del fruto maduro y taninos finos. El final es vibrante, fresco y nervioso por el silex, destacándose su vitalidad y frescura cítrica.

Puntuaciones y comentarios de críticos

Robert Parker: 94 puntos

El vino es profundo, con aromas sangrientos y especiados. Aunque aún bruto en comparación con el 2019, se espera que este 2018 se convierta en un gran vino de Loira algún día. Su final es sobresaliente, con vitalidad y frescura cítrica.

Cierre
El Les Mémoires 2018 es un vino elegante y refinado, con una estructura tanínica fina que refleja la perfección de las uvas viejas. Su carácter distintivo se debe a los suelos ricos en sílex y al método de elaboración meticuloso.

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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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