With Xinomavro taking the lead, the aromatic palette revolves around red fruit: tomato, red plum, and cherry, with hints of herbal notes. The palate is characterized by its immediacy, liveliness, and ease of enjoyment stand out on the palate, without losing sight of its origins. The tannins are mild, the acidity balanced, and the wine is characterized by...
Lightness and freshness of character, like biting the crispiest cherry that ever was. Right along aromas of lavender with the freshness of fennel and freshly ground green pepper. It goes for pleasure and finesse rather than complexity and muscle. But this is there adding of this specific terroir on the variety. And the Baudrys as obedient servants try to...
The youngest vines on the hillside of Les Clos Guillot receive excellent care and always combined with a careful, totally traditional, look at winemaking. This traditional approach, with indigenous yeasts, concrete tanks and long ageing in old Burgundy barrels gives an incredible wine in purity of expression and fruit extract. On the nose, aromas on the...
One of the most remarkable aging wines of Chinon which Baudry manages in the cellar only inbarrels due to the density and strength of the fruit. Indigenous doughs, fermentation in oak barrels and maturation in old barrels bought second hand from Burgundy for at least 18 months. The depth and intensity of the fruit is amazing, the wine is extremely complex...
After the nighttime harvest is complete and before sunrise, the grapes are transported to the winery in small crates, preserving their freshness and the cool nighttime temperature. They are then destemmed and placed in stainless steel tanks for pre-fermentation maceration with the skins. They remain there, under controlled cooling, for about 10 days, so...
Cuvée Céleste is produced from old, ungrafted Xinomavro vines in Amyndeo, planted on sandy-clay soils at an altitude of 650 metres. Only the free-run juice is used, with no press wine included. The first fermentation takes place in large foudres following a natural, low-intervention approach, with no added sulphur or oenological additives. The wine then...
The grapes are sourced from a 1.4-hectare vineyard situated at 700 metres above sea level, planted on sandy limestone soils with a high chalk content and farmed using gentle, low-intervention practices. Fermentation is carried out exclusively with indigenous yeasts in 600-litre barrels, with minimal sulphur additions and no oenological additives. The wine...
Penetrating tensions with beautiful oxidation supported by notes of citrus peel and candied lemon. Give it time to open up and it will throw a party of aromas with saffron and curry, tobacco leaves, nuts such as walnuts and roasted almonds, and earthy notes of truffle. Full of umami on the palate, minerality reminiscent of peat and shellfish, intense...
