2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Montbenault', Loire, France Domaine des Ardoisieres ambient yeast fermentation and aging

ambient yeast fermentation and aging for 10 months in stainless steel (70%) and used barrels (30%)

Filliatreau acquired some abandoned Cab Franc vines here back in the 1990s and converted farming biodynamics (certified since 2018)

We made a single 600 cask that year

Fermented and aged in barrel (30% new) for 22 months

Blanchot is the easternmost of Chablis’s seven Grands Crus

2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Montbenault', Loire, France Domaine des Ardoisieres ambient yeast fermentation and agingCertified Biodynamic. 100% Chenin Blanc from Montbenault a parcel Thomas planted in 2014, just 50 meters from Les Cocus, but the soils here tell a different story. Deeper, and laced with rhyolite a volcanic rock thats a signature of this corner of Anjou. Fermentation starts naturally in stainless steel, before the wine is moved to used 500L tonneaux (23 years old) for a year of levage. Both primary and malolactic fermentations occur without