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2017 Thierry Germain Domaine Les Roches Neuves Saumur Champigny 750 ml
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Loire Valley Biodynamic Stunner
An Ode to the Loire Valley
We’re offering this 2017 Thierry Germain Les Roches because we can say with absolute certainty that it is going to start—or reignite—your love affair with Cabernet Franc. Les Roches is a red-berried and savory-spiced ode to the Loire Valley, gifted to us from 25-year-old Cabernet Franc vines planted in chalk, sand, clay, and limestones soils.
The spicy, lighter-colored parent of Cabernet Sauvignon is already blended into the world’s most famous red blends—from Napa Valley to Bordeaux—and in this bottle, its spicy cherry flavors, and soft tannins take center stage. The Loire Valley’s signature red, Cabernet Franc is the perfect addition to bold red blends around the globe because it adds delicate floral perfume, freshness, and elegance to robust, tannic grape varieties like Cabernet Sauvignon.
In the Loire Valley, vintners like Thierry Germain have made a career out of highlighting those qualities in 100% Cabernet Franc bottlings. Lovers of red blends or spicy, off-the-beaten-path bottlings, this pure, delicious red is for you.
It was brought to the United States by one of the wine world’s most respected icons, importer Kermit Lynch, whose poetic travels and fanatical quest for “magical” wines with microscopic price tags have seduced wine lovers the world over. Lynch is a near-mythical figure today. His book-signings draw Hollywood celebrity-like crowds, and critics, experts, judges, winemakers, and vintners alike are all fans, from Robert Parker, Hugh Johnson, and Clive Coates, to Karen MacNeil (author of “The Wine Bible”) and Domaine de la Romanée Conti’s Aubert de Villaine—they all adore Kermit Lynch.
Thierry Germain—the man behind today’s Les Roches magic and discovered by Lynch—is a biodynamic farmer and winemaker whose mentor is Charly Foucault of Clos Rougeard, one of the most prestigious Loire producers.
Germain’s grapes are harvested early to preserve fruit freshness and vibrant acidity resulting in a red that’s fabulously drinkable, juicy, and delicious...and the price is assuredly painless. The pleasure to be gained is limitless, at least while these 30 cases last.