2016 | Clos Rougeard | Saumur Champigny

Red Wine: 2016 | Clos Rougeard | Saumur Champigny

Green Guide 2022 A very fine Loire balance emerges in this 2016, vinified gently and tactfully by Antoine Foucault. A Cabernet Franc with seductive florality and half-hearted substance. It should take on Burgundy airs in the next ten years.

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Producer: Clos Rougeard

Vintage: 2016

Size: 750ml

ABV: 12.5%

Varietal: Cabernet Franc

Country/Region: France, Loire

Green Guide 2022 A very fine Loire balance emerges in this 2016, vinified gently and tactfully by Antoine Foucault. A Cabernet Franc with seductive florality and half-hearted substance. It should take on Burgundy airs in the next ten years.

Producer Information

Clos Rougeard is an highly regarded wine estate in Saumur Champigny near the village of Chac in the Loire Valley. The estate was taken over by brothers Bernard (better known as “Nady”) and Charly Foucault in 1969, but had been in their family since 1894. Clos Rougeard has become famous as a cult producer because of the high quality and extremely limited release of its wines around 2500 cases annually.All of its wine is sold by allocation only, mostly to restaurants, and very little outside of France. Added to this, the Foucaults’ shunning of publicity further added to the estate’s cult status.Clos Rougeard produces only four wines: a single white wine from 100-percent Chenin Blanc called Brz, a Saumur (blanc); and three 100-percent Cabernet Franc reds: Saumur Champigny Le Clos, Les Poyeux and Le Bourg.