Loire Valley
Les Cabotines - 2022 - Ludovic Chanson
Domaine Ludovic Chanson
A dry Chenin, with notes of white fruits, citrus, honey, a hint of spices... Palate: a refined wine, powerful, rich and delicate, with moderate tension... An aperitif Chenin par excellence.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Montlouis-sur-Loire
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
100% Chenin from 60-year-old vines grown on silty-flinty soils, located in Montlouis-sur-Loire. The estate is certified organic by ECOCERT. The grapes were harvested progressively, over the course of 3 successive passes. Vinification: direct pressing, transferred to barrels, 12 months of maturation in 400-litre barrels and three weeks in vats. Neither fined nor filtered, and bottled at the Estate at the end of October 2023 with just a micro dose of sulphur.
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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