Les Quatre Piliers Première Cuvée Chapitre I Sauvignon Blanc 2022 (6 Bottles) Loire Valley

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This incisive, Dagueneau-esque Sauvignon Blanc is drawn from vines aged between 20 and 50 years in the west-facing terroir of Les Puits aux Chiens. Sited on the right bank of the Cher River, it’s the highest point of the commune of Noyers, a cool terroir with shallow flint sands and white clay over Turonian limestone rock.

Picked ripe, with barely any vestige of Sauvignon-ness, the grapes are pressed as whole bunches and ferment with indigenous yeasts in a selection of used barrels ranging from 228 to 500 litres.

These vessels include those made using oak staves from the nearby Loches forest, selected and aged by Valentin Desloges himself (and coopered by François Frères). The wine ages for 12 months with a single racking and plenty of lees contact. It is bottled by gravity without filtration.

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About Les Quatre Piliers Wines

Son of a winemaker from Touraine, originally from the Cher Valley, Valentin Desloges, 28, learned his trade with inspiring winemakers: Vincent Sipp in Alsace, the Todeschini family at Château Mangot in Saint-Émilion, Thierry and Paul Pillot in Chassagne-Montrachet and Raphaël Coche at Coche-Dury in Meursault. Mentors from varied terroirs, who allowed him to understand work in the vineyard as well as in the cellar.

Today at the head of the Domaine des Quatre Piliers (in Noyers-sur-Cher in Touraine), the young man returns to his native land to begin his new story starting from a blank page, but seasoned by his varied experiences and nourished by influences. The fruit of passionate and ultra-meticulous work, Valentin makes local wines, precise and fine while being marked by generosity.

The 10 ha vineyard, in the beating heart of the AOC Touraine valley, is divided into nearly 25 plots (the largest is barely over a hectare), a succession of small gardens converted to organic upon takeover, where Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Cabernet Franc, Pinot Noir and Côt (Malbec) grow on predominantly clay-limestone soils.

The Cher never strays more than a kilometer from the vines and divides the estate’s vines into two distinct zones on the right and left banks.

It contributes to the circulation of warm air currents that purify the vineyard and reinforces the oceanic influence coming from the west and the Loire. Beneath the entire surface of the vineyard, it is a white paradise: gigantic quarries of immaculate tuffeau, dug 30 m underground, encourage mineral exchange and pierce the Quatre Piliers vineyard with aeration shafts.

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