Buisson Renard - Domaine Louis Benjamin Dagueneau

Organic: Practicing

Biodynamic: Practicing

Vineyard: A single parcel located mid-slope on the southwest side of Saint Andelain, the highest village in the Pouilly-Fume appellation, and the only one to possess soil containing the perfect balance of clay and flint (silex). Historically, this vineyard has been known as Buisson Menard, but a few years back, a famous French wine journalist made the unenviable mistake of misnaming it Buisson Renard. Didier took offense and thus renamed it the following year. 

Orientation: Southwest

Soil: Silex (clay and flint) 

Viticulture: Farmed biodynamically. The domaine employs twice the number of employees than a conventional winery would use for the same acreage. The goal is to produce, on the average, 75% of the yields common to neighboring wineries. 

Vinification: Barrel fermented 

Aging: Aged mostly in neutral 450 and 600 liter barrels. 

Production: limited 

Notes: Oak aging has turned what was for years the most mineral of Dagueneau's cuvees into a rich, opulent wine that still maintains a classic flinty streak with a firm backbone.