{"product_id":"2023-domaine-theo-blet-le-corbin-saumur-rouge-loire-france","title":"2023 Domaine Theo Blet, Le Corbin, Saumur Rouge, Loire Valley, France","description":"\u003cp\u003eThéo Blet is the fourth generation of his family to grow vines in Saumur, and the first in a long time to make wine from them. His father is a grower whose sixteen hectares have gone to the local cooperative for years, and Théo, trained as a winemaker rather than a farmer, has been taking the reins of the family's best parcels one at a time to bottle under his own name. He began converting those plots to organic farming as soon as he took them on. So far his label accounts for a single hectare of the estate: a chenin blanc from the lieu-dit La Peyanne in the commune of Courchamps, and a cabernet franc called Le Corbin from the commune of Les Ulmes. Everything else still goes to the cooperative, though the plan is to bring more of the vineyard under his name each year. The quantities are tiny, 3,500 bottles of La Peyanne and 1,500 of Le Corbin in his 2022 vintage, and with only a handful of vintages behind him he is already one of the young producers people in the Loire talk about.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLe Corbin is 100% cabernet franc from Les Ulmes, a village on the tuffeau limestone plateau south of Saumur, some distance from the river and the better-known Champigny villages. Théo ferments it and ages it for twelve months in 400-liter barrels, only ten percent of them new, so the wood gives the wine air and a little polish without leaving a mark on its perfume. Roughly 1,500 bottles are made in a given year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2023 growing season in the Loire ran warm and generous through summer, with a hot spell in early September that brought cabernet franc to full ripeness while the nights stayed cool. Le Corbin opens with raspberry, wild strawberry and fresh mint, then peony and a thread of cassis underneath. The palate is bright and tangy with polished tannins, a lifted, herbal freshness and palpable energy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Yes Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52263537180968,"sku":"AT23BLETCORBIN750","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/1794\/6152\/files\/DomaineTheoBlet_LeCorbin_SaumurRouge_LoireValley_France.jpg?v=1789080846","url":"https:\/\/yes-society.com\/products\/2023-domaine-theo-blet-le-corbin-saumur-rouge-loire-france","provider":"Yes Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}