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Chidaine Montlouis Sur Loire Clos du Breuil 2023
$49.00Add to cartThis is a stellar Chenin Blanc
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Domaine Clau de Nell Chenin Blanc 2021
$100.00Add to cartThe ability to strike the balance in a wine that combines mouth-filing, pleasurable fruit combined with a brightness that beckons you back to the glass to savor its complexity is achieved by few winemakers. The legacy of attentive farming and gifted wine making live on through Anne-Claude Leflaive’s Clau de Nell.
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Domaine de La Rouletiere Les Calcaires Vouvray Sec 2023
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Domaine des Roches Neuves :’Echelier Thiery Germain Saumur 2021
$98.00Add to cartFrom Thierry Germain, a stellar winemaker who takes his viticultural influence from his mentor Charly Foucault of Clos Rougeard, comes this terroir focused Chenin that is razor-sharp and ready for drinking now but could just as easily age for a long time.
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Domaine Guiberteau 2020 Saumur Blanc Breze
$145.00Add to cartOne of the most sought after producers in the Loire. The wines of Domaine Guiberteau are for those really in the know. The legendary Becky Wasserman has this to say about Guiberteau: Romain Guiberteau owns some of the best land in Brézé, and makes dry chenins of punk rock violence, yet of Bach-like logic and profoundness.
This wine from Brézé is one of the peaks of Chenin Blanc. It’s incredibly dry with ripping texture and acid. It’s like watching a linebacker dance ballet.
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Domaine Huet Clos du Bourg Premiere Trie Vouvray Moelleux 2003
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Domaine Vigneau-Chevreau Vouvray Brut NV
$24.00Add to cartThe Vigneau family has been working vines across Vouvray for five generations, but under the ministrations of the youngest (and current leaders of the family winery Stephane and Christophe Vigneau-Chevreau converted the vineyards to biodynamic in 1995 and were certified organic in 1999. This dry sparkling Chenin is made using the traditional method and is the perfect introduction to what they do.
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Fine Disregard Chalone Chenin Blanc 2022
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Foxen Chenin Blanc Ernesto Wickenden Vineyard 2023
$39.00Add to cartFoxen is a legend in Santa Barbara wine country. Founded by Dick Doré and Bill Wathen in the late 70s it wasn’t until the late 80’s that they got their license (the 13th in the region which now is home to over 200). They work with some of the best fruit in the region where winemaker David Whitehair seeks to express the fruit cleanly.
This wine (and all the estate fruit) is an anomaly in the region as Foxen has own-rooted, dry farmed grapes on their estate. The fact that they can do this is quite frankly wild. In a place where pretty much everyone irrigates they don’t have to. The quirks of geography can be a funny thing. This chenin is proof that great wines can come from unlikely corners of the world.
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Indaba Chenin Blanc
$14.00Add to cartAn easy drinking Chenin from South Africa.
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Kumusha Wild Mutupo Skin Contact Chenin Blanc
$28.00Add to cartA cinsault rosé made by a sommelier-turned winemaker that has a lovely texture and is easy to drink. More full bodied than a provençal styled rose this wine can stand up to a a light dinner.
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Moulin Touchais Coteaux du Layon 1998
$109.00Add to cartOne of the beautiful things about Chenin Blanc is its ability to age. While this 1998 also happened to come from a classic year with 1/5th of the grapes being affected by botrytis, there’s no heaviness to this wine. It was has lovely notes of dried fruits that balance with the lingering sweetness—and lucky us, it’s in the perfect drinking window.
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Moulin Touchais Coteaux du Layon 2002
$99.00Add to cartOne of the beautiful things about Chenin Blanc is its ability to age. This 2002 has recently emerged from an awkward adolescence to become an amazing wine. It’s balanced with the fresh fruit having faded to dry and the acidity and sweetness that were competing have harmonized.
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Raats Chenin Blanc Old Vine 2022
$35.00Add to cartSince 2000 the Raats family has been specializing in Loire varietals in Stellenbosch South Africa. This Chenin is fruity and a bit rounder than its Loire cousins but is still a great value in Chenin Blanc.
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Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc L’Esprit Libre 2023
$54.00Add to cartWe receive only a tiny quantity of these jewel-like wines, but we’re always enchanted by their robust-but-elegant character. Batardière’s wines are somehow powerful, pretty, and crystal clear all at once, an unadorned expression of Anjou that could only come from this clear-headed and intuitive winemaker.
Certified Biodynamic. 100% Chenin Blanc. This wine is made of three parcels, situated in Rablay, with vines 15-90 years old. From plateaus of red sand and quartz gravel on schist. The juice is blended in steel tanks before the fermentation starts. The alcoholic and malolatic fermentations start naturally, without inoculation and without temperature control (his cave is underground and it’s 14 degrees C). The wine rests on its lees from pressing until summer without sulfur. Raised mainly in steel, although Thomas uses L’Esprit Libre to break in his 500L tonneaux that he then uses for ‘Clos de Cocus’ when needed. No SO2 added in 2023.
