Domaine François Chidaine Montlouis Brut Nature 2020 cote-rotie there’s more than one fruit-in-miniature

there’s more than one fruit-in-miniature gem inset here: small sour plums continue the atlantic blue feels

where fine

it's medium to full-bodied

next to the winery

along the eastern shore of Lake Neusiedl

Domaine François Chidaine Montlouis Brut Nature 2020 cote-rotie there’s more than one fruit-in-miniatureChidaines cracking Montlouis Brut Nature is made from old vine, biodynamically farmed, hand harvested fruit cropped at a very low 35 hectolitres per hectare (a figure almost unheard of in Champagne). To be specific, this zero dosage Montlouis is 100% Chenin Blanc from the flinty (perruches) sites of Le Volagray and Les Landes, as well as the clay and limestone dominant (aubuis) sites of Clos Renard and Les Epinais. Chidaine picks his grapes for