Francois Chidaine Montlouis Les Bournais 2023 EGLY24 Delicate flavours of melon and

Delicate flavours of melon and vine peach enliven our taste buds during the tasting

The 2022 leans polished and balanced rather than blockbuster

The 2021 delivers ripe cherry

His Brut Tradition is from 40-year old vines planted on clay

it remains precise and crystalline

Francois Chidaine Montlouis Les Bournais 2023 EGLY24 Delicate flavours of melon andChenin Blanc has more range than any other white grape it's great dry, great sweet, great sparkling and Francois Chidaine is the man who proved Montlouis could do it every bit as well as Vouvray across the river. Les Bournais may be the finest vineyard he farms: clay limestone at Husseau in Montlouis sur Loire, worked biodynamically, aged five to six months on fine lees in demi muids. It's the exotic one in his lineup white fruit on the nose that