2023 Domaine François Chidaine Montlouis-sur-Loire "Les Bournais", Loire Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE On a limestone plateau overlooking the Loire river sit Les Bournais, a vineyard Chidaine refers to as "a magical place". It had been abandoned for some time, but Chidaine was convinced that it was one of the very best sites in Montlouis, and planted vines here in 1999. Unlike most of Montlouis, which is on clay and silex, or flint, Bournais lies on clay and limestone, and the name Bournais refers to the particular type of limestone

Bolgheri Rosso by Grattamacco is a red wine with a good aromatic concentration

The season began with a rainy winter

A real wine family business from the region Eira dos Mouros

hand harvesting

The Levante winds blow from NE to SW off Menorca across the island

‘Clos de Frémine’ is located just bloew ‘Clos de la Hutte’ and is dominated by schist and sandstone soils

becoming the fourth generation to lead since the estate was founded in 1919

The Phelan Farm Wines do not see any sulfur (in the vineyard or cellar)

The wine rests sur lie for about 36 months

Alice likes to say that she "makes natural wines for the classic palette

in the valley of Negrar

which was saved from extinction due to the efforts of Vangelis Gerovassiliou