Domaine de la Chevalerie's Cuvées Parcellaires from Restigné

No.41 | Producer Feature

Earlier this week I posted a new tasting video featuring Domaine de la Chevalerie’s 2014 Bourgueil ‘Bretêche,’ one of the estate’s five cuvées parcellaires (single vineyard wines) from parcels in Restigné. As I noted in the video, these five wines (Galichets, Chevalerie, Bretêche, Busardières and Peu Muleau) are all from parcels very close to the domaine, but each has a slightly different terroir and offers up its own unique personality in the glass.

Being the nerd that I am, and knowing that there are many out there that are visual learners, I thought it might be worth supplementing the video with some maps and other visuals to give a better sense of the diversity of the terroirs across this small corner of Restigné.

The viticultural area in Restigné begins about 3km north of the Loire River on the east side of the Changeon River, with the commune of Benais to the northwest, the communes of Ingrandes-de-Touraine and St-Patrice (administratively amalgamated as Coteaux-sur-Loire) to the…