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.
