Anjou Blanc Bonnes Blanches Sec
At a Glance
- Variety: Chenin Blanc
- Surface Area: 1.9 ha (4.70 ac)
- Vine Age: Planted in 1992 and 1993
- Terroir: Les Bonnes Blanches, Saint Lambert Du Lattay, on a gently sloping hillside on the left bank of the Layon River, northeast-facing. Heavy quartz-rich clay soil with gravel over a very brittle schist subsoil (much more friable than other nearby terroirs, allowing the roots to dig deeper).
- Viticulture: Organic (Ecocert), biodynamic (Biodyvin). Manual de-budding, leaf thinning, and green harvesting.
- Vinification: Pressed with whole clusters, settled, ambient yeast fermentation, aged for 10 months in variable combinations of wooden casks, concrete eggs, terracotta amphoras, and barrels (228-400 L, some new), spontaneous malolactic conversion, SO2 added only during aging.
Additional Info
Les Bonnes Blanches is the great historical terroir of the village of Saint Lambert. Knowing this, Vincent Ogereau focused on producing a brilliant sweet wine from 1995 onward, a wine which ultimately became the pride of the domaine. Today, with Emmanuel's parcel-based approach to dry wines, the decision to show another version of the great terroir of Bonnes Blanches, as a dry wine, was evident. Thus, as of 2017, they began making both a great dry wine and a great dessert wine from this exceptional terroir.