Loire Valley
Rigodon - 2023 - Ludovic Chanson
Domaine Ludovic Chanson
Rigodon is the name of a dance that is practiced from Quebec to Provence and the North of France... So a festive and federating wine, a tense and very fresh white which could make you think of a very very good Muscadet if it was a blind tasting!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Montlouis-sur-Loire
- Degree of alcohol
- 11.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
Second vintage for this 100% Chenin, its is a blend of all Chenin plots from Ludovic, 25 year-old vines on average, grown organically and harvested by hand. Natural vinification: direct pressing, 9 months of aging for 90% in fiber vats and for 10% in barrels that have seen several wines. Bottled at the Estate in May 2024 without fining or filtration, 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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