Bernard Baudry, Chinon "La Croix Boissee", 2022 SO030524_Loire This Eola-Amity Hills bottling comes

This Eola-Amity Hills bottling comes from high-elevation vineyards where volcanic soils and Pacific winds shape a Chardonnay that’s both racy and deeply layered

20% Grenache Blanc

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The tannins are still present but velvety

well-drained soils in the Santa Ynez Valley and is vinified with native yeasts and no heavy oak

Bernard Baudry, Chinon "La Croix Boissee", 2022 SO030524_Loire This Eola-Amity Hills bottling comesBernard Baudry's flagship Chinon, from a single parcel of 60 year old vines on clay limestone slopes. While Les Grzeaux (also in our selection) shows elegance, La Croix Boisse delivers powerthis is Cabernet Franc built for aging. The clay soils here create wines of depth and structure rarely seen in the Loire. Fermented with indigenous yeasts, aged 18 months in barrel. Dark fruit, tobacco leaf, iron, and an almost Mdoc like tannic architecture. Give