DOMAINE YANNICK AMIRAULT

Domaine Yannick Amirault was founded in 1936 by Eugène Amirault and taken over in 1977 by his grandson Yannick, who began with 3.9 hectares of the Malgagnes vineyard inherited from his grandfather. Yannick’s son Benoît joined him in 2003 and now runs the domaine, which has 19 hectares split into 25 parcels, two thirds in Bourgueil and one third in Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil. The domaine has been certified organic since 2009, and no chemicals or weedkillers have been used since 1997. Each terroir is worked following the lunar cycle, picked by hand and aged separately in barrels, demi-muids and sandstone jars, and every wine is made only from the domaine’s own grapes.

“Côte 50” comes from sand and gravel on the Bourgueil terrace, 50 metres above the Loire, and is aged for 7 to 12 months to make a soft, early maturing wine. “La Source” is from the sand and gravel soils around Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil and is aged in foudre for 5 to 10 months: another early maturing cuvée, with a little more body than its “Côte 50” sibling. “Bâtard-Princesse” is the domaine’s white, from Chenin Blanc planted in 2017 and 2020 on the south-facing Grand Clos hillside above Bourgueil.

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