Pouilly Fume Silex Dagueneau 2015

Dagueneau Pouilly-Fumé Silex 2015 is a barrel-aged single-vineyard Sauvignon Blanc from the Pouilly-Fumé appellation of the Loire Valley. One of two single-vineyard Sauvignon Blancs from this cult domaine in Saint-Andelain, Silex is the most structured wine of the domaine. "From almost 4ha of flint-scattered clays around the mound of St Andelain, this is light gold in colour with a fine-meshed weave of green plant and soft spring leaf scents, full of copse coolness. In the mouth it’s a seamless pool of those green plant and leaf notes, fleshed out with quiet green orchard and citrus fruits. As ever, it`s a remarkably unshowy, undemonstrative, stealthy wine, despite its fame and the reputed showiness of the variety. All is held in check by those clinging, cossetting cool clays. Give it time in decanter, glass or mouth, and you’ll see figures and allusions quietly stirring." Andrew Jefford, 2018