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Herve Villemade, Les Acacias, 2015

White Wine from Loire, France
by Herve Villemade
$84.99
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Romorantin is one of the great age-worthy white grapes that almost nobody knows, and this is the old-vine bottling with eleven years already behind it. The variety grows in essentially one place on earth, Cour-Cheverny, a sliver of an appellation in the woods of the Loire where it is the only permitted grape, and Les Acacias comes off Herve Villemade's oldest Romorantin parcels on sand and clay studded with silex flint. Villemade took over his family's vines in Cellettes in 1995 and converted everything to certified organic farming in 2000, after the wines of Marcel Lapierre and Thierry Puzelat convinced him that working without sulfur demanded far cleaner fruit. The grapes are direct-pressed, cold-racked off their gross lees for a day, then fermented and aged on the fine lees in 500-liter barrels for a full two years before bottling unfined, unfiltered, with a single gram of sulfur per hectoliter. 2015 was a hot, dry summer in the Loire that produced unusually ripe fruit, and the decade since has turned that ripeness into waxy, honeyed depth while Romorantin's ferocious acidity keeps the whole thing taut. It is drinking beautifully right now with no hurry at all, and bottles like this routinely hold another decade.

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More about Herve Villemade

Hervé went conventional, then developed a severe sulfur allergy around 1997. Instead of quitting, he pivoted to zero-SO₂ winemaking and organic farming, which meant he needed the best fruit possible. Now his Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny wines ferment wild, age in everything from concrete to amphora, and taste like somebody actually thinks about what they're making. Still allergic, still uncompromising.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Romorantin

  • Vintage

    2015

  • Size

    750ml

  • Sweetness

    Dry

  • Body

    Medium Bodied

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast chicken with tarragon, seared scallops, pork loin with mustard cream, a mushroom and leek tart, or aged Comte. The extra age lets it handle richer dishes than young Loire whites can.

Tasting Profile

Quince, dried pear and lemon curd with beeswax, chamomile and a toasted-nut note from age. Medium-bodied with a waxy texture, dry, driven by the bracing acidity Romorantin is known for, and finishing long, saline and faintly bitter.

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