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Roches Neuves Saumur Champigny 2016
Add to cart$45.00in any six
$48.00 per single bottle
Germain’s entry-point Saumur-Champigny is drawn from the Domaine’s younger Cabernet Franc vines (averaging 25 years), growing on the tuffeau/limestone soils around the communes of Varrains, Chaintres and Saumur. They include some parcels ploughed by Germain’s Ardennais draft horses: Ben, Balbu and Comtesse. Biodynamic and 100% Cabernet Franc, the grapes are hand harvested and some parcels […]
Producer: Roches Neuves
Producer: Roches Neuves$45.00in any six
$48.00 per single bottle
Roches Neuves Saumur Champigny Marginale 2015
Add to cart$95.00in any six
$102.00 per single bottle
Marginale is Germain’s old-vines cuvée, drawn from parcels on the limestone Fosse de Chaintre and from a small parcel of old vines on Turonian limestone in Les Poyeux. Made from the estates oldest and lowest yielding Cabernet Franc vines, the wine is given an extra 6 months élevage. Perhaps more than any other red, Marginale […]
Producer: Roches Neuves
Producer: Roches Neuves$95.00in any six
$102.00 per single bottle
Roches Neuves Saumur Champigny Clos de L’Echelier Rouge 2015
Add to cart$100.00in any six
$110.00 per single bottle
Sublime wine. Soaring perfume of red fruits, spice and hints of Rosemary. The palate is utterly seductive. Plush and soft with a wealth of red fruits and the slinkiest sveldt tannins that hold the wine’s notes perfectly. The most sensual Cabernet Franc that I can remember having and has challenged my preconceptions about this varietal. WWC, […]
Producer: Roches Neuves
Producer: Roches Neuves$100.00in any six
$110.00 per single bottle
Roches Neuves Saumur Champigny Franc de Pied 2015
$100.00in any six
$110.00 per single bottle
First made in 2008, this stunning wine comes from a 0.2-hectare parcel of ungrafted Cabernet Franc planted in a sandy parcel of land close to the river. Planting density is 10,000 vines per hectare and the vines are pruned in the échalas, or single-stake system. The 5-metre deep sandy soil is worked by horse and […]
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Roches Neuves Saumur Champigny Les Memories 2015
Add to cart$108.00in any six
$120.00 per single bottle
This stunning bottling is drawn from a tiny, single parcel (0.72-hectares) at Dampierre, southwest of Saumur. Planted with 108-year-old Cabernet Franc vines (including many ungrafted vines) on clay-limestone and silex subsoil’. These are the oldest vines in the Germain stable and they are certainly some of, if not the, oldest Cab Franc vines in the […]
Producer: Roches Neuves
Producer: Roches Neuves$108.00in any six
$120.00 per single bottle