Le Rayon 2020 - Thomas Puéchavy

Le Rayon - Thomas Puéchavy

Le Rayon by Thomas Puéchavy is a Chenin Blanc based white wine produced in the Loire Valley. Aging for about 9 months in old oak tonneaux. No filtration or addition of sulfites. The result is a wine with aromas of white flowers and aromatic herbs, very mineral and iodized notes. The mouth follows in the footsteps of the nose, revealing itself as refined, fresh and elegant. What can I say? Give it a try and you'll be hooked.

Service

We taste it at a temperature of 8/10 ° in a tulip glass. Wine to be drunk immediately but will express its best in a few years.

Pairings

Excellent to combine with seafood, second courses with vegetables, to try with baked salmon with vegetables.

Cellar:  Thomas Puéchavy

From musician to vigneron. It is the life path of Thomas Puéchavy who for many years successfully played the harmonica in a band. A passion and a profession that led him on tour, not only in France, but throughout Europe. So in 2016 the choice to undertake another life: that of the vigneron. He thus moved to Amboise where he attended a specialist course in organic viticulture. In this charming town of the Loire he lived for a short time with his wife and two children. Later, in fact, he leaves the city and finds a house with a large cellar in the village of Nazelles. Thomas cultivates 3 hectares of Chenin Blanc in the municipality of Vouvray. These are rented vineyards that have been converted to organic since 2018. The vines are between 20 and 80 years old. The soil on which they stand is composed of silty clays and tuffaceous parts that give the wines the right balance between fullness, minerality and flavor. Its first vintage produced and marketed is 2019.