Domaine Didier Dagueneau Vin de France Pur Sang 1.5L MAGNUM 2023

Domaine Didier Dagueneau Pur Sang, in magnum, is drawn from the flinty La Folie vineyard that Dagueneau bought and replanted against local advice.

Pur Sang means thoroughbred, and the name began as Didier Dagueneau’s retort to writers who could not stop mentioning that he ploughed this site with a horse; the first label carried a horsehide rug. The fruit comes from La Folie, a densely planted vineyard of thirty-year-old vines at Saint-Laurent-l’Abbaye. Locals thought the purchase mad, as the land had not been under vine within living memory and was full of boulders and awkward to work, but it had long ago been part of the appellation and Dagueneau saw what it offered: flint and silica-rich clay, and slopes facing south to south-east. It is also the birthplace of Astéroïde, the ultra-rare cuvée made from eighteen rows of ungrafted vines and almost never exported. The wine is fermented and raised in the estate’s bespoke cigar-shaped barrels. Only a handful of magnums are filled.

Give it three or four years and cellar with confidence in this format. Serve at 10-12°C with turbot, roast chicken or a mature Comté.

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