2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Grand Clos', Loire, France Racines Soils are red gravelly loam

Soils are red gravelly loam on a base of volcanic ash

The sites all become officially biodynamic in 2021

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

where the Mediterranean Sea bites into this rock and carves out the Gulf of Castellamare

followed by an additional year in bottle

2024 Thomas Batardiere Chenin Blanc 'Grand Clos', Loire, France Racines Soils are red gravelly loamCertified 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