Winemaker Notes
Blend: 100% Chenin Blanc
Professional Ratings
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2022 L'Anjou Blanc, which matured for 11 months in stainless steel tanks, reveals a delicate, lively bouquet with aromas of herbs, sage, pear and spices with a flinty character. Medium-bodied, juicy and perfectly balanced, it’s bright, charming, precise and gourmand, concluding with a lingering, saline finish despite a touch of spritzy residual carbon dioxide.
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Wine Spectator
There's nice concentration to this white's dried apple and zesty citrus notes, wrapped in accents of warm spices and salt. Tangy acidity keeps this fresh and bright. Cool stone and mineral elements line the finish, which offers great finesse and drinkability. Drink now through 2028. 1,000 cases made, 200 cases imported.
Unquestionably one of the most diverse grape varieties, Chenin Blanc can do it all. It shines in every style from bone dry to unctuously sweet, oaked or unoaked, still or sparkling and even as the base for fortified wines and spirits. Perhaps Chenin Blanc’s greatest asset is its ever-present acidity, maintained even under warm growing conditions. Somm Secret—Landing in South Africa in the mid 1800s, today the country has double the acreage of Chenin Blanc planted compared to France. There is also a new wave of dedicated producers committed to restoring old Chenin vines.
Known for its delightful whites and sparkling Pétillant and Mousseux, made predominantly of Chenin blanc, Anjou has a temperate and dry maritime climate. The region's limited temperature variations are admiringly referred to locally as the “douceur angevine,” or “Anjou sweetness.” Fruit forward rosé and red wines from Cabernet Franc and Gamay merit Anjou its success within the Loire subregions.