Chateau Soucherie, Savennieres, Clos des Perrieres 2013

When our longtime partner Château Soucherie changed hands in the late 2000s, new owner Roger Beguinot enacted many positive changes at the winery, working toward organic certification, improving cellar equipment, and—vitally—finding new talent to shepherd the estate’s formidable holdings in Savennieres and Coteaux du Layon into compelling wines.Early on, future Anjou superstar Thibaud Boudignon was the full-time cellarmaster for Beguinot, and while he has long since moved on to fully pursue his own wines, we astonishingly have a handful of cases in our warehouse of a Savennieres Thibaud produced during his stint at Château Soucherie. Traditionally made Savennieres notoriously requires years of aging to relax; unlike its beguiling upriver Chenin Blanc brethren Vouvray and Montlouis, schistous Savennieres is born fully armored and bristling with tension. How lovely it is, then, to be able to offer 10-year-old examples from such an immense talent.The Clos des Perrieres is a 1.8-hectare vi