Loire Valley
Gavroche - 2023 - Ludovic Chanson
Domaine Ludovic Chanson
This is an opulent white aperitif wine with notes of ripe fruit... Palate: this is rich, luscious juice, a wine that brings to mind Alexandre Bain for its generous, ripe profile. Ludo is all rigour with his Chenin, but it’s playtime when it comes to his other grape varieties.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
100% Sauvignon, this cuvée is made from 70% estate-grown grapes, from vines organically farmed and certified by Ecocert, planted on two parcels, one 35 years old and the other 60, located in Luceau on sandy-silty soils; and 30% purchased organic grapes, also from the Loire Valley. Harvesting by hand. Vinification: direct pressing, 8 months of aging in vats. No fining, no filtration, bottled at the estate in May 2024 with just a micro-dose of sulfur.
Ludovic Chanson
Ludovic Chanson, from his first bottles released as a young upstart winemaker, has been proving himself year in year out in Montlouis. Entering the wine world in 2009, having left a career in pharmaceutical research, this scientist was bitten by the vine bug during time spent with Vincent Carême and Damien Délécheneau (of the Domaine La Grange Tiphaine). He’d buy 8.5 hectares to start out, but...
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