Chinon's Domaine Dozon: Tending a Premier Cru with Patience and Purpose
No.81 | Producer Feature
My first introduction to Domaine Dozon came in the spring of 2021, when the 2018 vintage of the cuvée “Le Clos du Saut au Loup” quietly appeared on LCBO Vintages shelves. I was instantly smitten. Authentic, restrained, characterful - and most importantly, delicious. I knew nothing about the domaine, but I knew enough to go down the rabbit hole: I emailed Éric, scoured the internet for whatever fragments of information I could find, and eventually featured the wine as Cab Franc du Jour #50 in July of that year. That was very early days on my Cab Franc Chronicles journey, but I could still sense there was something special in that bottle, even though I didn’t yet have the vocabulary or experience to fully articulate why.
It would be a few more years before I met Éric in person, at Les Vignerons Dans la Ville in Chinon in 2024, and a few more still before I finally made it to the domaine itself on a rather dreary February day earlier this year. Some things are worth the wait.
