{"product_id":"2022-domaine-didier-dagueneau-pur-sang-vin-de-france-loire-valley-france","title":"2022 Domaine Didier Dagueneau, Pur Sang, Vin de France, Loire Valley, France","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1982, Didier Dagueneau returned to Saint-Andelain and refused to join the family domaine, setting out instead to make, as he put it, “the best Sauvignon Blanc in the world.” A former professional racer of both dog-sleds and motorcycle sidecars, he became the most divisive and most decorated figure in the Pouilly-Fumé appellation before his untimely 2008 death in an ultralight plane crash. His son Louis-Benjamin, then 26, took the reins alongside his sister Charlotte, and the wines have only sharpened. The domaine farms roughly 12 hectares in Pouilly across silex and clay, a parcel of Monts Damnés in Sancerre, and three hectares in Jurançon at the foot of the Pyrénées. Yields are kept at 75% of neighboring estates and vinified parcel-by-parcel; fermentations rely on indigenous yeasts; aging happens in cigar-shaped barrels and demi-muids designed for lees contact without aromatic distortion. Since 2017, in protest of an appellation rejection, the wines have been bottled as Vin de France.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePur Sang — \"thoroughbred\" — comes from the three-hectare La Folie vineyard, hidden between two small forests north of Saint-Andelain, planted on deep clay with a band of silica and south-southeast exposure. The cuvée was Didier's third single-parcel bottling, added in 1988 after En Chailloux and Silex, and it tends toward greater flesh and floral lift than its more austere siblings on the hilltop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2022 is generous and muscular without losing its tension. White peach, yellow pear, orange blossom, ripe quince, and a thread of smoke fill the nose; the palate is unctuous and broadly textured, with the warmth of the vintage held in check by acidity and a saline mineral spine. A subtle vanilla note from oak aging sits behind the fruit. Could easily take 15 years of cellar time post-bottling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51809473102120,"sku":"AT22DAGUENEAUPURSANG750","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineDidierDagueneau_PurSang.jpg?v=1778694777","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2022-domaine-didier-dagueneau-pur-sang-vin-de-france-loire-valley-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}