DAGUENEAU

It’s not often that one feels they are in the presence of winemaking genius, one whose energy and spirit seems to seep out of the bottle and live on. This was the late Didier Dagueneau.

Decanter named Didier as one of the world’s top ten makers of white wine, opining that his expressions “tower over the rest of Pouilly-Fume” and that “he makes brilliantly three-dimensional wines, while too many of his fellow producers struggle to make it to two.” The Sauvignon Blanc wines of this risk-taking Loire perfectionist are legendary.

Meeting an untimely end at the age of 52 in a plane crash, his brilliant legacy has been kept alive by his family via the dedicated and talented hands of his son, Benjamin, and to this day Dagueneau’s Silex is hailed as the pinnacle of Sauvignon Blanc production.