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Chanteleuserie Bourgueil Cuvée Alouettes 2024

Name: Chanteleuserie Bourgueil Cuvée Alouettes 2024
Brand: Domaine H
SKU: CHANTEL-ALOUETTES
Price: 28.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$28.00

Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied red; zippy and fruit-forward with soft tannins from sandy soils, good acidity, and a peppery finish; drink young or slightly chilled
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Cabernet Franc; sandy soils; 8 ha vineyard planted 1967-1980; lutte raisonnée farming; Benais, Bourgueil AOC, Loire Valley, France
Winemaking: Fermented in 125-year-old oak vats with foot pigeage; aged 8-12 months in stainless steel; stored in underground tuffeau caves; 12.5% ABV
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 55-59°F; no decanting needed; also good with a slight chill at 52°F
Pairing: Steak au poivre
Similar to: Lighter Chinon, Gamay de Touraine, everyday Saumur-Champigny

Chanteleuserie Bourgueil Cuvée Alouettes 2024 is a dry red wine made by Thierry Boucard at Domaine de la Chanteleuserie, his family's estate in Benais, in the Bourgueil appellation of the Loire Valley. Made from 100% Cabernet Franc grown on sandy soils in an 8-hectare vineyard planted between 1967 and 1980, the wine is fermented in 125-year-old oak vats with foot pigeage and then aged for 8 to 12 months in stainless steel tanks to preserve freshness and fruit character. Chanteleuserie Bourgueil Cuvée Alouettes 2024 is bottled under lutte raisonnée farming at 12.5% ABV and stored in the estate's underground tuffeau caves before release.

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Chanteleuserie Bourgueil Cuvée Alouettes 2024

$28.00

Producer profile

Domaine H

Domaine de la Chanteleuserie is a family estate in Benais, in the heart of the Bourgueil appellation, run by Thierry Boucard, the seventh generation of his family to make wine on this land. The Boucard family has been producing wine in Bourgueil since 1822, and the estate's name translates as "place where the larks sing," a reference to the wooded limestone plateau above the village where the property sits. The tasting room is built in Thierry's grandfather's old cellar, and much of the winemaking infrastructure reflects that family continuity: fermentation for all red wines takes place in oak vats that are at least 125 years old, which have absorbed a century of harvests and fermentations.

Kermit Lynch discovered Thierry's father, Moise Boucard, in 1976 and has been the estate's US importer since, a relationship that spans five decades. Moise passed the estate to Thierry, along with, according to Kermit Lynch, a good sense of humor and genuine modesty alongside the winemaking skills. Thierry makes 100% Cabernet Franc across all his cuvées, reflecting a purist approach to Bourgueil's signature variety.

Farming across the estate follows lutte raisonnée practices, meaning chemical inputs are reduced to the minimum necessary and synthetic herbicides are avoided, though the estate is not certified organic. The vineyards are split between sandy valley floor parcels, from which the Cuvée Alouettes is sourced, and south-facing tuffeau plateau sites, which supply the estate's more structured and age-worthy cuvées.

After fermentation in the old oak vats with traditional foot pigeage, wines are aged in stainless steel to preserve freshness, then stored in the estate's underground champignonnières, a network of tuffeau caves originally used by local farmers to grow mushrooms, where the temperature and humidity remain naturally stable year-round. The Cuvée Alouettes is the estate's everyday bottling, built for the table rather than the cellar, and is one of the Loire's most reliable bistro-style reds at its price point.

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Wine region

Loire Valley, France

Bourgueil is an AOC on the north bank of the Loire River in the Indre-et-Loire department, within the Touraine sub-region of the Loire Valley. It sits roughly 30 miles downriver from Vouvray, across the Loire from Chinon, and produces exclusively red and rosé wines from Cabernet Franc. The appellation covers around 3,500 acres across the communes of Bourgueil, Benais, Restigné, Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, Ingrandes-de-Touraine, and several others, with Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil holding its own separate AOC.

The appellation's most defining characteristic is the diversity of its soils, which fall into two broadly different types. The valley floor and lower slopes are dominated by sand and gravel, ancient river deposits from the Loire and its tributaries, which produce wines that are softer in tannin, more aromatic, and forward-drinking from a younger age. The plateau and hillside parcels, by contrast, sit on tuffeau, the yellowish limestone unique to the Touraine, which gives wines considerably more structure, mineral character, and the potential to age for many years. Chanteleuserie's Cuvée Alouettes comes from the sandy parcels; the estate's more serious cuvées come from tuffeau.

The climate is temperate and Loire-influenced, with mild winters, warm summers, and maritime air moving inland from the Atlantic. Cabernet Franc ripens reliably here in most vintages and produces wines with more structure and darker fruit character on the north bank than on the cooler Chinon side of the river, while retaining the freshness and pepper note that defines Loire Cab Franc across the region.

Bourgueil has a long history of winemaking dating back to the Benedictine Abbey of Bourgueil, founded in 990 AD, whose monks planted vines across the surrounding hillsides. Today the appellation is home to a mix of family estates and cooperatives, with the finest wines coming from producers who maintain low yields on their tuffeau parcels and vinify with care in traditional cellars carved directly into the limestone.

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