Pouilly-Fume Silex

2015

100% Sauvignon Blanc

Alcohol: 13.5%

Region: Loire valley

ESTATE HISTORY

Domaine Didier Dagueneau is one of France’s most iconic estates founded by the late Loire Valley winemaker.

TERROIR

Soil: Flint (Silex)

VITICULTURE

Farming: Organic & Biodynamic

WINEMAKING

Oak: New & Used French Barrels of Various Sizes

TASTING & FOOD PAIRINGS 

Best served at 55° F
Glassware: Burgundy Stem
Drinking: Now-2030+
Decanting: 1-2 Hours
Pairing: Seafood (Sole Meuniere) 

Year after year, and now generation after generation, few “cult favorite” wines deserve their plaudits more than Dagueneau. If you’ve never experienced Silex—or any Dagueneau wine, for that matter—brace yourself for a wine of uncommon purity and focus.

The fruit here is so intense, with a chiseled, energetic personality that soaks up every last drop of Pouilly-Fumé’s Grand-Cru-equivalent parcels.

Fleshy but tart passionfruit, green peach, kiwi, and green apple round out the supple palate, almost producing an electric “green” scent to this vivid Sauvignon Blanc.

Even the minerality is multi-dimensional here, with a saline gleam of crushed oyster shell layered atop a steely flash of gunflint.