2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Grand Clos', Loire, France Racines acquiring more land here in

acquiring more land here in 2017 in order to make more of this cuvée

followed by an additional year in bottle

The wine is then fermented in stainless steel where it then undergoes malolactic fermentation

low-vigor Goldridge soil

Soils are red gravelly loam on a base of volcanic ash

2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Grand Clos', Loire, France Racines acquiring more land here inCertified biodynamic. 100% Chenin Blanc. A new parcel of Chenin planted in 2020, just to the east of the village of Rablay its the last parcel on the hillside where Esprit Libre is located. The new parcel for Le Grand Clos is located on a break in the hill, on a significantly more eroded schist soil than the bottling of Esprit Libre. Spontaneously fermented in inox with elevage in used foudre. Unfined and unfiltered, with less than 20ppm SO2 added at