Didier Dagueneau

Domaine Didier Dagueneau, based in Saint-Andelain in the Pouilly-Fumé appellation, is one of the Loire Valley’s defining names for Sauvignon Blanc. Founded in the early 1980s by the iconoclastic Didier Dagueneau, a former motorcycle and dog-sled racer, the estate quickly earned a worldwide following for intensely mineral, ageworthy whites that challenged the region’s conventions. After Didier’s death in 2008, his son Louis‑Benjamin (and daughter Charlotte) took over, maintaining the domaine’s exacting standards and…