Laurent Saillard, ‘Lucky You’ Chardonnay & Sauvignon Blanc, Loire Valley, FR Lucky You indeed! Oldies but goodies Sauvignon Blanc & Chardonnay move to Brooklyn, get lightly tattooed, & have the sexiest messy ponytails you have ever seen. Like you see their platonic ideals of messy ponytails and are immediately inspired to try & replicate them but unfortunately, your hair will never go like that. All you can do is sip a glass of this wine coolly at the bar and be your own badass self! Which is a really chill compromise. Lucky You is like falling in love with your best friend, a glass of house white wine in perfect punk rock heaven, a blend of 80% old vines Sauvy B & 20% Chard. Grapes are whole cluster pressed into stainless steel, unfined & unfiltered with a minute amount of added sulphites. Acacia honey, lime leaf and crunchy pear meet wet stone and gauzy golden silk. Apple juicebox nose, scratching the skin off an almond with your fingernail, spicy nectarine, eating an apricot in a field of white flowers. Saillard’s wines are such wine bar wines! Lucky You makes us crave a dimly lit bar in a major international city: marble countertops, white linen shirt & frayed jean shorts, phone number scrawled on a cocktail napkin in ballpoint pen.

1, 3 or 6 bottles ‘Lucky You’, 80% Sauvignon Blanc + 20% Chard

PRODUCTION & DRINKING

Laurent Saillard is a Frenchman turned NYC chef and restaurateur who returned to France to make the wines he loved. He settled in the tiny town of Pouillé, an hour east of Tours. There he was mentored by the great Noella Morantin who helped him make wine, refurbish an old winery and connect with the village’s fantastic growers. Connect he did. When he was offered half of Catherine and Didier Barouillet’s famed Clos Roche Blanche vineyard in 2014, he jumped at the chance. These powerful, old, organic vineyards on limestone tell an incredible story. The wines get better every year we taste them and they were pretty freaking great from year one. We have followed these wines for years and years and fought hard to get a small allocation at this year’s Dive Bouteille in Saumur this past February 2020 aka our last trip in the before times. The Lucky You is whole cluster pressed into stainless steel where it slowly ferments till spring. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulphur at bottling.

TASTES LIKE

Fine, silky, complex pleasure. To delight natural wine lovers and classic wine lovers alike with its purity and density of flavour. A natural wine to prove natural wine is not always fun and glou glou (though we love this style), but can be fine, clean and ageable.

Lucky You Sauvignon Blanc + Chardo: the taste of golden deliciousness. Lime leaf, crunchy pear and golden honey meet wet stone and texture texture texture.