Clos des Plantes | Anjou

White wine
100% Chenin Blanc
From Les Cailloux and Clos des Plantes parcels
Aged in tanks

From 30-years old vines on predominantly schist soil around Montbenault, and oh-so-very-very-pretty. Talcum powder, honeysuckle, pears, lilies, lemon rind, it's bracingly clean and cooling, but also silky, oozing plenty of class. The longer it airs, more elegance looms, then blooms into an archetype of Chenin at its purest, finest and most alluring.

White wine
100% Chenin Blanc
From Les Cailloux vineyard
12-months in old oak barrels

A fabulous Chenin from soils rich in schist and quartz, which imparts an almost pebbley minerality to the final wine. Mature and round, but also piercing and super polished. Stone fruits, lemon rind, honeysuckle, white flowers, pear and beeswax abound. These vines were abandoned until 2017, when Olivier adopted a regenerative farming approach to revitalising the plot. Sleek, weightless and airy, an archetype of purity, typicity and delicacy. The wine builds and builds, turning fleshier and stonier altogether, finishing with a stunningly delicate salinity.