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Thierry Hesnault A Part! 2024

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Style: Dry, light-to-medium-bodied red with genuine aromatic complexity; the Pineau d'Aunis provides the wine's signature peppery spice, red fruit, and fine-grained structure, while the Gamay contributes floral lift, juicy fruit, and a softer, more approachable texture
Grapes & terroir: Pineau d'Aunis from old vines on sandy, iron-rich silex soils in Chahaignes, Sarthe; Gamay from 90-year-old vines on sand and gravel in Touraine; both parcels organically farmed with no chemical treatments; minimal intervention throughout
Winemaking: Hand-harvested; both varieties fermented separately as whole clusters, approximately 3 weeks; gentle pump-overs; varieties assembled and aged together for 18 months in old oak barrels in a tuffeau cave without electricity or running water; worked entirely by gravity; unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfur
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 57–61°F; decant 30–45 minutes or allow extended time in the glass — particularly the Pineau d'Aunis component benefits from air
Pairing: Rillettes de Tours (traditional pork rillettes from Touraine)
Similar to: Natural Pineau d'Aunis from Coteaux du Loir, carbonic Gamay from Beaujolais, light natural Cabernet Franc from Saumur-Champigny

Thierry Hesnault A Part! 2024 is a dry red wine blending old-vine Pineau d'Aunis from Hesnault's parcels in Chahaignes, Sarthe, with Gamay from his vineyards in Touraine. The two varieties are fermented separately as whole clusters for approximately three weeks, then assembled and aged together for 18 months in old oak barrels in Thierry Hesnault's candlelit tuffeau cave cellar — with no electricity or running water. The wine is bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without added sulfur. Organic. Vin de France. Loire Valley, France.

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Producer profile

Thierry Hesnault

Thierry Hesnault is a vigneron based in the village of Chahaignes in the Sarthe, working 2.68 hectares of old vines scattered across tiny parcels in Chahaignes and in the Touraine near Amboise. He grew up near Amboise in a winemaking family, which gave him a foundation in the vines from childhood. After spending years working in vineyards beyond the Loire — in Bordeaux, Champagne, Vouvray, and further afield internationally — he returned to the region and worked closely with Jean-Pierre Robinot and Eric Nicolas, two of the most important figures in the Sarthe's natural wine scene, while teaching at the Lycée Viticole in Amboise.

He spent several years methodically identifying and acquiring parcels of the oldest and most interesting vines he could find before beginning his own production in 2009. The estate's key holdings include 0.6 hectares of 130-year-old, ungrafted Pineau d'Aunis planted in 1902 on sandy, iron-rich soils in the Sarthe — the source of La Centenaire du Vauperroux — and 1.9 hectares of 90-year-old Gamay on sand and gravel in Limeray, near Amboise, which becomes Les Maluseaux. A Part! draws on fruit from both parcels, assembling the two varieties into a single wine.

His cellar is a small cave cut into the tuffeau rock, without electricity or running water. Fermentations proceed at the cave's naturally low temperatures, slowly and without interference. All wines are worked by gravity, aged in old oak barrels, and bottled unfined, unfiltered, and without any added sulfur. Hesnault keeps a deliberately low profile, producing wines in genuinely tiny quantities for a small group of dedicated importers and private buyers.

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Wine region

Loire Valley, France

The Sarthe is a département in the southern part of the Pays de la Loire, bordering the Indre-et-Loire to the south. It occupies a zone of northern Touraine that lies between the better-known appellations of Jasnières and Coteaux du Loir — both of which follow the Loir river valley, a tributary of the Loire that flows west through this quietly beautiful stretch of central France. The geology here is defined by tuffeau, the soft, pale limestone that shapes everything from the regional architecture — including the cave cellars carved into the hillsides — to the character of the wines grown above it. Tuffeau soils drain easily, reflect heat, and lend a clean mineral quality to the wines made from vines rooted in them.

The climate is semi-continental with a maritime moderating influence from the Atlantic to the west. Winters are cold, summers warm but not extreme, and the river valleys create their own microclimates with morning mists and temperature differentials that help preserve natural acidity in the grapes. The same tuffeau hillsides that line the Loir valley provide the cool, stable cave environments — naturally regulated at constant humidity and temperature — that local winemakers have used for centuries to age their wines slowly and without any need for modern temperature control.

This part of the Loire is home to a small group of quietly influential natural wine producers who work with indigenous varieties — Pineau d'Aunis, Chenin Blanc, and Gamay being the most significant locally — and release their wines under the Vin de France label rather than within the constraints of the narrow AOC rules. Jean-Pierre Robinot and Eric Nicolas were among the first to establish the area's reputation internationally, and Thierry Hesnault has continued in that tradition, working from the same tuffeau landscape with the same deep commitment to old vines and unhurried winemaking.

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