2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Grand Clos', Loire, France Racines low-vigor Goldridge soil

low-vigor Goldridge soil

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• A blend of fruit from younger vines

The wine is then fermented in stainless steel where it then undergoes malolactic fermentation

Soils are red gravelly loam on a base of volcanic ash

2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Grand Clos', Loire, France Racines low-vigor Goldridge soilCertified biodynamic. 100% Chenin Blanc. A new parcel of Chenin planted in 2020, just to the east of the village of Rablay its the last parcel on the hillside where Esprit Libre is located. The new parcel for Le Grand Clos is located on a break in the hill, on a significantly more eroded schist soil than the bottling of Esprit Libre. Spontaneously fermented in inox with elevage in used foudre. Unfined and unfiltered, with less than 20ppm SO2 added at