From the Importer:

-‘Les Pouches’ is the top Chenin [read: top wine] in Dittière’s cellar. It’s produced from a small parcel comprised of a thin layer of silt and clay over a base of pure limestone on a little hillside in Saumur where vines have been planted since the Middle Ages. Dittière’s first vintage working with the vineyard was 2017 and he learned quickly to follow the site's natural inclinations toward an elemental, ultra-mineral style of Chenin.
-For his whites, Dittière practices long élévage on the lees with no sulphur and very little racking. 'Les Pouches' is aged in used barrels from Haut Brion and Clos Rougeard complemented with a couple new ones from Burgundy. The cellar is very cold and allows for long lees aging with no racking, resulting in a specific quality of reduction that is extremely intense but also more deeply integrated than most. This deep quality of reduction reminds me of the exceptionally distinctive reduction one sees at Domaine Gauby, and is of the rare variety that actually intensifies in the glass rather than the superficial sort that tends to ‘blow off.’

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