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Thierry Hesnault Dix Boisselées Pinot Noir 2023

Name: Thierry Hesnault Dix Boisselées Pinot Noir 2023
Brand: Thierry Hesnault
SKU: hesnault-dixpinotnoir
Price: 60.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$60.00

Style: Dry, medium-bodied red with the transparency and earthy complexity characteristic of old-vine Loire Pinot Noir; the whole-cluster fermentation gives the wine a savory, structured backbone and a slightly spiced, stem-inflected quality alongside the fruit
Grapes & terroir: 100% Pinot Noir from a 0.1-hectare parcel of century-old vines on tuffeau limestone in Chahaignes, Sarthe, northern Touraine; organic farming with no chemical treatments; minimal intervention throughout
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; whole-cluster fermentation, approximately 3–4 weeks; gentle pump-overs; 18 months in a single old barrique in a tuffeau cave without electricity or running water; unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfur
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 58–62°F; decant 30–45 minutes, or open the bottle ahead and allow the wine to breathe in the glass — it opens considerably with air
Pairing: Pintade rôtie aux champignons sauvages (French roast guinea fowl with wild mushrooms)
Similar to: Saumur-Champigny from old vines, natural Pinot Noir from Sancerre, Trousseau from Arbois

Thierry Hesnault Dix Boisselées Pinot Noir 2023 is a dry red wine made from 100% Pinot Noir grown on a single parcel of just one-tenth of a hectare in Chahaignes, in the Sarthe department of northern Touraine, Loire Valley. The vines are over 100 years old, planted on tuffeau limestone soils. Grapes are hand-harvested and fermented as whole clusters for approximately three to four weeks. The wine then ages for 18 months in a single old oak barrel in Thierry Hesnault's tuffeau cave cellar. Bottled unfined, unfiltered, with no added sulfur. Vin de France.

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Thierry Hesnault Dix Boisselées Pinot Noir 2023

$60.00

Producer profile

Thierry Hesnault

Thierry Hesnault is a vigneron based in Chahaignes, in the Sarthe department of northern Touraine, working 2.68 hectares of old vines across multiple tiny parcels in the village and its surroundings. He was born near Amboise into a family of winemakers, and spent years working in vineyards beyond the Loire — including stints in Bordeaux, Champagne, Vouvray, and further afield — before returning to the region he knew best. On his return he worked alongside Jean-Pierre Robinot and Eric Nicolas, two of the Sarthe's most influential natural winemakers, while also teaching at the Lycée Viticole in Amboise.

He spent several years identifying and acquiring tiny parcels of the oldest vines in the area before beginning his own production in 2009. The estate now holds around 0.5 hectares of 130-year-old Pineau d'Aunis, 1.4 hectares of 90-year-old Gamay, a parcel of Chenin Blanc, hybrid varieties planted 50 to 70 years ago, and the one-tenth of a hectare of century-old Pinot Noir that produces Dix Boisselées — the historic name for the plot, drawn from an old unit of land measurement.

Farming across all parcels is organic, with no chemical treatments of any kind, and Hesnault's focus is firmly on channeling the energy of these old plants with as little interference as possible. His cellar is a small cave carved into the tuffeau, with no electricity and no running water. Wines are worked entirely by gravity, fermented at naturally low temperatures, and aged patiently in old barrels. All wines are bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without any added sulfur. Hesnault keeps an intentionally low profile, and his wines — produced in genuinely tiny quantities — circulate among a small group of devoted importers and buyers.

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Wine region

Loire Valley, France

The Sarthe is a département in the Pays de la Loire administrative region, bordering the Indre-et-Loire to the south, where the more widely recognized appellations of Touraine begin. The northern reaches of Touraine extend into the Sarthe, occupying a transitional zone between the well-known Loire appellations of Jasnières and Coteaux du Loir, to the east, and the more obscure valleys and hillsides where a small group of independent natural wine producers, including Thierry Hesnault, Jean-Pierre Robinot, and Eric Nicolas, have worked for decades.

The geology here is dominated by tuffeau, the soft pale limestone that defines the landscape and architecture of the middle Loire Valley. Tuffeau underlies the hillsides and cliffs along the Loir river and its tributaries, and its porosity and soft structure make it ideal for the traditional cave cellars that were carved into the rock over centuries and are still used by local winemakers today. In the vineyard, tuffeau-based soils drain freely, retain heat, and contribute a distinctive mineral, chalky quality to the wines grown on them.

The climate in this part of the Loire is semi-continental, with cool winters, warm summers, and the moderating effect of the river valleys. Rainfall is more evenly distributed than on the Atlantic coast, and the continental influence brings warmer autumns that allow late-ripening varieties like Chenin Blanc time to mature fully. For red grapes including Pineau d'Aunis, Gamay, and the rare Pinot Noir planted here, the cool conditions produce wines with high natural acidity, fine structure, and aromatic delicacy.

The area is not widely known internationally and has no blockbuster appellations to its name. Its wine identity is shaped by a handful of committed producers who have sought out and revived old-vine parcels rather than seeking appellation recognition, releasing their wines under the Vin de France designation rather than working within the constraints of the local AOC rules.

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