Montlouis Les Bournais (sec) 2021
AC, François Chidaine, 750 ml
Grape variety: | Chenin Blanc |
Producer: | François Chidaine |
Origin: | France / Loire / Touraine |
Description
In contrast to the other wines of François Chidaine, the bouquet is initially rather subtle, marked by the scent of Mediterranean herbs such as thyme, rosemary and mint. On the palate, the wine is dry and very juicy with a spicy and tart taste, infused with a fine note reminiscent of honey and sun-ripened apricots. Our tip: Decant the wine at least half an hour before drinking!
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Attributes
Origin: | France / Loire / Touraine |
Grape variety: | Chenin Blanc |
Label: | Certified organic or biodynamic wine |
Ripening potential: | 2 to 15 years after harvest |
Drinking temperature: | 10 to 12 °C |
Food Pairing: | Grilled fish, Fresh water fish with cream sauce, Scaloppine di vitello al limone, Goat's cheese, Coquilles Saint Jacques on lentils |
Vinification: | soft pressing |
Harvest: | hand-picking with simultaneous grape sel |
Maturation: | on the yeast, bâtonnage, partly in steel tank, partly in wooden barrel/foudre |
Volume: | 13.0 % |
Note: | Contains sulphites |
Chenin Blanc
Small area, great variety
The Chenin blanc now grows on just one percent of French vineyards. But its wines are immensely diverse. The homeland of this grape is the Loire Valley. There it muscles into the light-footed frothers of Saumur and Vouvray. The vintners of Bonnezeaux and Quarts-de-Chaume process them into beguilingly sweet wines. And in Savennières it yields dry whites with mineral cores and great aging potential. They smell of apple, honey and fresh straw, and show great body and a stimulating acidity. The world's largest area of Chenin blanc is in South Africa, where it landed in the mid-17th century with Dutch traders. The most exciting wines result from old vines drawn from traditional bush forms.
Loire
Loire: the regal wine river
The French refer to the river landscape of the Loire simply as “the garden of France.” It is no wonder that kings and the nobility built their magnificent chateaux here. At the same time, the Loire is a highly varied wine river. From Pouilly-sur-Loire in the east, to Nantes at the river’s outlet, into the Atlantic, the vineyards follow the river's course and yield highly distinctive wines from varieties such as Sauvignon Blanc, Chenin Blanc, Muscadet and the red Cabernet Franc..
France
France – Philosophy in a bottle
According to French philosophy, wine should be an expression of the soil and climate. They use the word “terroir” to describe this. Terroir makes every wine different, and many especially good. French wine is regarded worldwide as an expression of cultural perfection. The French believe that humans are responsible for the quality of the berries, the vine variety for their character, and nature for the quantity. This philosophy can be expressed succinctly as: “the truth is the vineyard, not the man.”