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Didier Dagueneau

Didier Dagueneau (1956[1] 17 September 2008[2]) was a winemaker in the

Loire Valley who received a cult following for his Sauvignon Blanc wines

from the Pouilly Fum appellation. He died on 17 September 2008, in an ul-tralight plane crash in the Cognac region of France.[3] He is survived by two

children with his ex-wife Martine, Benjamin and Charlotte, who work at the

domaine, and two children with his partner Suzan Cremer, Aaron and

Lon.[4]

Winemaking

Dagueneau was born in 1956 in Saint-Andelain, Nivre, Burgundy.[1] His

winery with 12 hectares (30 acres) of vineyards[1] was in the town of Saint-

Andelain, in Pouilly Fum. He was seeking to make "the best Sauvignon

blanc in the world".[2] He made a variety of different cuves, including Buis-

son-Renard, Pur Sang (French for "pureblood"), Asterode, and Silex ("flint").

Somewhat unusually for the appellation and grape variety, many of hiswines were meant for cellaring and some had a clear influence of oak. He

was also developing vineyards inJuranon.[4]

An ex-motorcycle racer with no formal enological training [5] Dagueneau

clashed with other winegrowers about "typicit" ("typicity" or "showing its

origin") while achieving unprecedented prices for the region.

His vineyard practices were a combination of the exacting (extremely low

yields, hand harvesting in multiple passes[5]) with the unusual, such as using

horses to plow the soil between vines.[6] He was described as a risk taker and

an experimenter, with perfectionist attitudes to his work, cutting yields se-

verely to achieve greater ripeness.[7]

References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_ripeness_(wine)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_(wine)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_(wine)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Andelainhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%A8vrehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgognehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viticulturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_ripeness_(wine)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typicityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juran%C3%A7on_AOChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_(wine)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flinthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourgognehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C3%A8vrehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-Andelainhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognac,_Francehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouilly_Fum%C3%A9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauvignon_Blanchttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loire_(wine)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viticulture

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Footnotes

1. ^ abc Styles, Oliver, Decanter (21 January, 2008). "Didier Dagueneau".

2. ^ ab Styles, Oliver, Decanter (September 17, 2008). "Didier Dagueneau

dies".3. Dressner, Joe, The Wine Importer (September 17, 2008). "Didier Dague-

neau RIP".

4. ^ a b Molesworth, James, Wine Spectator (September 18, 2008). "Didier

Dagueneau Dies in Aircraft Crash at 52".

5. ^ ab Friedrich, Jacqueline, Wine Spectator (May 31, 1995). "Rebel With a

Cause: Didier Dagueneau's outspoken manner ruffles feathers in the

Loire, but his convictions advance the quality of Pouilly-Fum".

6. Robinson, Jancis, JancisRobinson.com (September 18, 2008). "Didier

Dagueneau's final flight".

7. Asimov, Eric, The New York Times: The Pour (September 18, 2008). "Didi-

er Dagueneau Killed in Plane Crash".

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