Loire Valley
Sans Pagne - 2020 - Ludovic Chanson
Domaine Ludovic Chanson
Nose with notes of white fruits, in-your-face minerality, a floral touch. Palate: an elegant sparkling wine, with a slightly bitter finish, the name of this cuvée is obviously a reference to Champagne!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2022 to 2026
- rock’n’roll
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100% Chardonnay for this vintage, from vines planted in the area of Montlouis-sur-Loire and grown organically, the whole estate is certified by Ecocert. Manual harvest, direct pressing, the malolactic fermentation is completed. Bottled with residual sugars for the refermentation, 17 months of aging on laths, disgorged in March 2022. A cuvée "sans pagne" (without loincloth), which means it is a naked wine! Just a little pinch of sulphur at bottling.

Ludovic Chanson
Ludovic Chanson, from his first bottles released as a young upstart winemaker, has been proving himself year in year out in Montlouis. Entering the wine world in 2009, having left a career in pharmaceutical research, this scientist was bitten by the vine bug during time spent with Vincent Carême and Damien Délécheneau (of the Domaine La Grange Tiphaine). He’d buy 8.5 hectares to start out, but...
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