Chateau du Hureau Saumur-Champigny Tuffe 2015
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This wine goes great with pork in all forms: rillettes, chops or roast. The wine’s versatility makes it wonderful with beef and chicken too.
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This 50-acre domaine is almost completely given over to cabernet franc, planted in the tuffeau that gives this wine its name and provided the stone for the 15th-century château; this wine is a blend from 15 parcels in Dampierre sur Loire, Souzay Champigny and Saumur. Those various parcels give a range of fruit character, from strawberry-red to blue and black fruit, all of it bright, spicy and clean. It feels supple and silky, a textural pleasure with the freshness of the predawn hours on a cool spring morning.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The dark ruby colored 2015 Saumur-Champigny Tuffe is a selection of 12 parcels and shows a ripe and concentrated bouquet of red cassis and ripe red cherries. Good freshness. On the palate, this is a fruity, vital and crunchy, very mineral and salty Cabernet Franc with good vibrations and lingering freshness, red fruit flavors and floral notes. Impossible to stop drinking.
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Behind the Chateau sits the winery carved out of the Limestone cliffs in the 13th century and overlooking the Loire river. For wine lovers, the cave is even more impressive than the Chateau, with numerous paths leading to carved out caverns housing stainless steel vinification equipment and lines of barrels. It reminds one of being in a James Bond movie!
Philippe Vatan was thrust into the limelight at the Chateau du Hureau by the tragic and untimely death of his brother in 1987. Involved in a completely different business up until this time, it is testament to his fortitude and skills as vigneron that he has made such a success of this domaine, now considered one of the top in the appellation. Seventeen hectares (42 acres) including 21 separate vineyard plots are spread around the towns of Dampierre Sur Loire, Souzay, Champigny, and Saumur. The vineyards are planted with Cabernet Franc.
Cabernet Franc, a proud parent of Cabernet Sauvignon, is the subtler and more delicate of the Cabernets. Today Cabernet Franc produces outstanding single varietal wines across the wine-producing world. Somm Secret—One of California's best-kept secrets is the Happy Canyon appellation of Santa Barbara. Here Cabernet Franc shines as a single varietal wine or in blends, expressing sumptuous fruit, savory aromas and polished tannins.
Marked by great châteaux built with the same tuffeau limestone that is also responsible for the excavation of so many of the famed Loire caves, Saumur is famous for its Chenin blanc based sparkling wines. Inside the Saumur region, Saumur-Champigny creates some of the Loire’s greatest Cabernet Francs.