Bernard Baudry - Les Granges Chinon Rouge 2023

Bernard Baudry - Les Granges Chinon Rouge 2023Bernard Baudry is a family affair: Bernard Baudry, son of a winemakers family, started his professional life as a vine tending consultant at the Tours laboratory, where he worked with Jacques Puisais. He had previously studied oenology in Beaune. His 5 years on the job served as an excellent apprenticeship when in 1975 he decided to start his own estate with 2 hectares of vines. His son Matthieu studied in the Mcon area, then in Bordeaux, and, after a

When the juice is clear

and like the 2016 Riserva

preserving the essential subsoil life: bacteria

his father practiced biodynamic viticulture and Laurent continues in this vein

and seductive

following the dream of the company’s founder

with a minimum of intervention

on south-facing slopes where the Savoyard grape varieties Jacquère

As a highly respected consultant working in several countries and terroirs (Chile

the equipment and processes are designed to best serve the wines

and tannins are slightly tuggy

except when the founder made sweet white wines using “noble rot” (botrytis cinerea)–which he called Sauternia after the French Sauternes