100% Cabernet Franc. Like the more renowned Les Picasses, Les Peuilles is a lieu-dit close to the village of Beaumont-En-Véron, but it is to the south of town, closer to the Vienne river. It is a plateau rather than a hillside and features soils of clay and flint rather than limestone. The fruit is...

100% Chenin Blanc. Raffault has some of the oldest Chenin Blanc vines in Chinon in a one-hectare monopole called Champ Chenin, a particularly limestone-rich patch of ground in due west of the famous Les Picasses vineyard. Like all Raffault vines, these are farmed organically and harvested by hand....

100% Cabernet Franc. Les Granges comes from 8 ha. of vines lying along the Vienne River in Cravant near the winery. They are around 20 years old now and planted on alluvial soils of gravel and sand with zero clay, which gives rise to a simple, fresh style of Chinon. The farming is certified-organic...

100% Cabernet Franc. 2020 was the first bottling of this particular one-hectare plot of 15-year-old vines, Mollières, which previously was blended into another cuvée. Mollières lies in the extreme west of Chinon, at the highest hillside location of any of Baudry's vines. It is a windy, well-exposed...

90% Menu Pineau/10% Petit Meslier. Brin de Chèvre ("goat's hay") comes from two neighboring parcels, one planted in 1937 and the other in 1950; currently, those original old vines make up about 70% of the wine, with the rest from massale-selection replantings from over the last decade or two. The...

95% Pinot Noir/5% Gamay. Named for the site, which roughly translates to "little gravelly one", Gravotte comes from a single 1.2-hectare plot of estate vines in the 35-40-year-old range, planted on particuarly stony, flinty clay-limestone soils; it is organically farmed and harvested by hand....

100% Melon de Bourgogne. A historical plot in the Papin family, Les Pierres Blanches is the cadastral name given to this place. It faces the authentic cellars of the BonneauPapin family, on a hillside with gneiss subsoil at the entrance to the village of La Chapelle-Heulin. Vines were planted in...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. The Clos de l’Allée is a place with a rich history; its 2.3 uninterrupted hectares are enclosed by paths which were the borders of three feudal lordships in the 18th century. The Cassini maps listed 75 owners at the time. The clos is adjacent to the winery and is the...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. This plot is one of the historical treasures of the Luneau family. It rises up between two villages and has a river running through it. Officially part of the village of Vallet, the plot lies at the top of a hillside forming a 500-meter wide vein of granite that descends...

100% Melon de Bourgogne. Communal crus date back to the late 1990s in the Muscadet, thanks to the effort of a handful of estates, including Luneau-Papin. This cru is known as Goulaine, referring to the Goulaine river which flows into the Loire. Located on the top of the hillsides, the vine plots...

100% Chenin Blanc. From a 0.75-hectare, certified-organic parcel of 60-year-old estate vines on clay over limestone. Pinon’s Goutte d’Or liquoreux is its most rare, complex, vaunted sweet wine, produced thus far only in 1989, 1990 and 2018. The correct conditions are quite rare. In 2018, the grapes...