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Hervé Villemande - 'Bovin Blanc' - Sauvignon Blanc - Cheverny, Loire Valley, FR - 2021 - 1000ml
Hervé Villemande - 'Bovin Blanc' - Sauvignon Blanc - Cheverny, Loire Valley, FR - 2021 - 1000ml
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Hervé Villemade - 'Bovin Blanc' - Sauvignon Blanc - Cheverny, Loire Valley, FR - 2021 - 1000ml

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This vintage is so dope... and so sauvignon blanc!
This wine comes from purchased organic fruit in the Vallée du Cher. It is bottled in old school liter bottles that used to be the norm for local négociants in the 50's and 60's. Each one would have their own consigned bottles, usually with a colorful label, that you could bring back to get filled up. Bovin's tongue in cheek label is meant to evoke this. The liter bottles are not produced anymore and Hervé obtains them second hand. This means the bottles don't match, may be discolored, scratched or all types of banged up.

Hervé Villemade has been working his family's vines in Cellettes since taking over from his father in 1995. Today, the estate represents about 22 hectares of organically farmed fruit within the Chevernyand Cour-Cheverny AOCs, along with a négociant license to supplement production with local grapes.
When Hervé first took over, everything was farmed chemically and vinified conventionally. Unaware of an alternative, he followed in his parents' footsteps but quickly found his work "uninspired and bland." Around 1997, Hervé was introduced to the wines of Marcel Lapierre and Clos du Tue-Boeuf. Both immediately struck a chord with him.
Coincidentally, at the exact same time that he was discovering these wines, Hervé started developing a very serious allergy to sulfur. He decided to eliminate it from the cellar, but his first sans souffre vinifications quickly led to the conclusion that to make wine this way, you needed the hightest quality grapes. So in 2000, Hervé decided to convert the estate to organic viticulture.
The majority of the production consists of Cheverny Blanc and Cheverny Rouge, all farmed from the historic family parcels in Cellettes. A single vineyard Cheverny Rouge, "Les Ardilles_"_, is produced in vintages that permit, along with "Desiré", a magnum only bottling of very old Pinot Noir planted by his grandfather. In addition, Hervé owns a significant amount of the indigenous Romorantin,a grape so unique to this part of the Loire that it receives its own appellation, Cour-Cheverny

For the Romorantins, cuvées are bottled as single vine: "Les Châtaigniers" and the old vine "Les Acacias". Hervé's area is particularly vulnerable to spring frost, a phenomenon that has greatly accelerated in the last 20 years with global warming. Due to mild winters, the vines due not go into as deep a hybernation and beging budding weeks earlier than they used to. Spring frosts have always been common, but would occur at a point in the vines' vegetative cycle where little to no harm could be done.
Hervé has lost part of his crop to this phenomenon in most years, including nine vintages between 1995 and 2012 where 80% or more of his family land was destroyed. In such, Hervé has had to completetly overhaul and rethink his entreprise. He has invested in costly anti-frost towers, is pruningmuch later and leaving grass to intentionally compete with the vines. It also led him to begin a négociant business sourcing grapes from local purveyors.

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