2023 Domaine Bernard Baudry Chinon Blanc "Le Domaine", Loire Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE: Young Chenin Blanc vines aged between 5 and 20 years are manually harvested to create this complex white wine. Vines are grown on a mix of clay limestone hillsides and flint clay plateaus. Grapes are fully destemmed and gravity fed into vats, before a slow fermentation for several months in 500 litre barrels and ovoid concrete vats. Fermentation is carried out completely to dryness, yielding a wine with less than 2g L of residual

he produced reds from Portuguese Alentejo and whites from Albariño Rías Baixas

Its food-pairing versatility is wide

No malolactic fermentation

and demand the winegrower and winemaker to be adaptable vintage after vintage

With over 75 hectares under vine

” to name his bottlings

Ray then spent formative time at Tonella Vineyard Management

and others

a result of quality production and commercial foresight when no one in the region could imagine the global phenomenon Provence rosé would become

The three single-vineyards of Domaine Tempier are: La Migoua

The cask is thereby unique

The wine is aged for 29 months in bottle and was disgorged in September 2020