Thierry Hesnault

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Thierry Hesnault Les Maluseaux 2023

$50.00

Organic
Unfiltered
No Added SO2

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Dry/Sweet: Dry

Wine Type: Red

Wine Style: Medium Body

Grapes: Gamay

Farming: Organic

Vintage: 2023

Alcohol: 12%

Country: France

Region: Loire Valley

Appellation: NA

Bottle Size: 750ml

Sugar Level: Zero Added Sugar

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We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

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Satellite view of Loire Valley, with the area outlined in white

Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics

Wine region

Loire Valley, France

Touraine is the central sub-region of the Loire Valley, stretching across the Indre-et-Loire departement and parts of its neighbors, with the city of Tours at its heart and the town of Amboise — a royal residence in the Renaissance era — to the east. The Loire and its tributaries, including the Cher, Indre, and Vienne, shape the landscape of rolling hills, tuffeau limestone escarpments, and sandy alluvial terraces that define the most important vineyard land here.

Gamay is not the variety most people associate with Touraine — that distinction goes to Chenin Blanc and Cabernet Franc — but it has been grown in the region for centuries. Most Touraine Gamay is made in a light, carbonic style for early drinking, but the tradition of working old-vine Gamay with longer macerations and serious cellar aging is maintained by a small number of producers who understand the grape's potential when yields are low and the soils are well-drained. The deep gravel and sand terraces near Amboise, where Thierry Hesnault farms his Gamay parcels, are especially suited to this kind of viticulture: they drain quickly, warm early in the season, and naturally limit vine vigor, pushing old vines to concentrate their energy into small bunches of intensely flavored fruit.

Touraine's tuffeau limestone is as significant below ground as above it. The soft, porous rock — the material from which the Loire's famous châteaux were built — is also what Thierry and others dig their cave cellars into. Tuffeau maintains a constant cool temperature year-round, making it ideal for slow, low-temperature fermentation and long, patient aging without modern temperature control. This tradition of cave cellaring is one of the Loire's oldest winemaking continuities, used today not as an affectation but as a genuinely functional advantage for producers who work without electricity.

Frequently Asked Questions

Important information about wine, shipping, and delivery.

When is my order shipping?

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

Do I have to sign upon delivery?

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

What if I miss a delivery?

If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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Thierry Hesnault Les Maluseaux 2023

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