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2020 Thibaud Boudignon "Clos de la Hutte" Savennières

2020 Thibaud Boudignon "Clos de la Hutte" Savennières

96CK
96VN
95RP
$119.99

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96

Chris Kissack

Reviewed February 2023
This has seen out at élevage in oak for 18 months, followed by another 8 months in bottle, before they were released for sale. This was, for Thibaud, the first vintage when he was also to focus exclusively on his own winery without thinking about his work at Clos de Soucherie. This is rich in aromatic and waxy peach, with layers of crushed flint minerals, primrose and verbena. The palate is just divine, textured and savoury, infused with lightly bitter peach skin, pear, orange pith, aniseed and fennel, all cut with brilliant mineral and acid veins. Intense yet focused, with balanced minerality. Exceptional quality, depth and focus here. A truly stunning example of Savennières. Fabulous, so long too, with a tingling sense of conviction, eager top please and yet cerebral. It brims with cellar potential.

Professional Reviews

96

Vinous

Review Date: 09/2022
Move over Luther Vandross, Thibaud Boudignon is in town and the Clos de la Hutte makes you want to slow dance with it. The 2020 is a wine that makes your shoulders drop such is its tranquility and sense of comfort in your mouth. It blooms in the mouth and does so without any sense of heaviness. The finish, scented with flowers and nectarines, is long, fragrant and textural. I hate using the word minerality as it means so many different things to people, but in my opinion, this has it in spades. It is incredible that the vines were only planted in 2011 on the schistous site on the grounds of a former monastery. Aged in larger format barrels, there's no sense of oakiness, allowing the purity of this wine to shine bright. (RG)

95

Wine Advocate

Review Date: 01/2024
A fresh, smoky and reduced bouquet prefaces the 2020 Savennières Clos de la Hutte, a dense, full-bodied, concentrated and fine-grained wine. It concludes with a saline, mineral finish. This wine is a terrific success for Boudignon, and it could age gracefully over the next decade or more. (YC)

Notes

Thibaud Boudignon is a young, talented rising star winemaker in the Loire. He is currently the winemaker at Château Soucherie, where his integrating winemaking approach and shift towards 100% organic practices has resulted in great success. The winery allows him to produce a small amount of wine under his own label on the side. Importer Skurnik Wines says: "Thibaud Boudignon is unquestionably one of the most exciting figures in wine today. Originally from Bordeaux, he honed his winemaking craft while working at Philipe Charlopin in Gevrey-Chambertin during the early 2000s...It is wines like these that make us remember why we love this business. Just when you think you’ve had the best a region has to offer, a new discovery comes along to rock your world. Boudignon is such a discovery, with wines that speak so clearly of their place of origin. It is in this writer’s humble opinion, that there is no greater dry Chenin Blanc being made in the world today. Period." ] *Natural Wine*

Details

OriginLoire, France
Type/VarietalChenin Blanc
SKU1671759