Francois Chidaine Montlouis Les Bournais 2023 PURYEAR Outstanding with food

Outstanding with food

30% of the barrels are less than 4 years with the rest being over 5 years old

The weight is viscous and oily

The soil is poorer and sits on a rocky limestone bench at the top of the hill as the slope tapers down and it becomes more clayey

Francois Chidaine Montlouis Les Bournais 2023 PURYEAR Outstanding with foodChenin Blanc has more range than any other white grape it's great dry, great sweet, great sparkling and Francois Chidaine is the man who proved Montlouis could do it every bit as well as Vouvray across the river. Les Bournais may be the finest vineyard he farms: clay limestone at Husseau in Montlouis sur Loire, worked biodynamically, aged five to six months on fine lees in demi muids. It's the exotic one in his lineup white fruit on the nose that