Exciting New Saumur Producer | Etienne Bodet & Maison Bodet-Herold

Etienne Bodet is a native of the Saumur region, where his family owns a domaine in Montreuil-Bellay. He trained with Sylvain Pataille, Aurélien Gerbais, Bernard Baudry, François Dal, Romain Guiberteau (who is also his stepfather), and was on the winemaking team at Clos Rougeard from 2021 through 2023.

In 2015, Etienne received the 1.4 ha Clos Durandière as a wedding present from his family.  Maison Bodet-Herold is the sparkling wine project he founded with his wife Kim Herold.  They released their first sparkling wine with the 2017 vintage and launched Domaine Etienne Bodet in 2020.

Etienne Bodet is one of the Loire’s most compelling new voices, bringing a rare combination of technical precision and instinctive, low-intervention sensibility to everything he touches.   This is a domaine to watch and we are excited to offer these three new limited releases.

2022 Maison Bodet-Herold Crémant de Loire ‘Les Greffiers’
Chenin Blanc 100%, organically farmed from heavy clay soils over Jurassic limestone in the village of Vaudelnay, about 5 km to the east of Montreuil-Bellay. Hand-picked, wild-yeast fermented in stainless steel tanks at low temperature, followed by four months maturation on lees in tank, without malolactic conversion.  Then bottled and tiraged on lees sur-lattes for almost two years before dégorgement with zero dosage.  This is one of the best Chenin Blanc sparkling wines available.

2024 Etienne Bodet Saumur ‘Clarum des Vaudelles’
Cabernet Franc 100% from a 0.9 ha plot planted in 1966. Clos des Vaudelles is just across the Rue des Fusillées 1944 from Clos Durandière, yet the geology here is Oxfordian marl from the Jurassic period (circa 155 million years ago). The winemaking regime is similar to the Clos Durandière.  Heavily inspired by Pataille's famous rose, this is a lighter red with juicy fruit, a little herbal and a mineral core.

2022 Etienne Bodet Saumur ‘Clos Durandière’
Cabernet Franc 100% planted in 1983.  This clos is surrounded by the wall of the Château de la Durandière, belonging to Etienne's family, and the neighboring forest. The vineyard is among only 20ha in Saumur with a hard Bathonian limestone bedrock from the Jurassic period, as opposed to the more typical tuffeau.

Vinified with native yeasts, partial whole cluster inclusion (up to 35%), no punch-downs or pump-overs.  Pressed to a mix of new and seasoned barrels (up to three years old) and matured for two years.  Bottled unfined and unfiltered with a small sulphur addition (19 ppm total) and matured in bottle a further six months prior to release.

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