Full, tractable, salivating… A great Chenin from the Loire, with two years of ageing to accompany a superb, loose, complex, delicately spicy and spindly substance, which flows towards an elegantly bitter finish. A very beautiful crystalline Chenin that confirms the spectacular progress of Sylvain Dittière’s whites.
Harvested and vinified separately and aged 24 months in used barriques and demi-muids before blending and bottling.
Winemaking wunderkind Sylvain Dittière founded La Porte Saint Jean in 2010, when he was just 24 years old. He built the domaine from the ground up, first purchasing organically farmed grapes from a trusted local grower until he could find the financial footing to purchase his first plot: 5 acres of prime Saumur terroir on limestone and Jurassic silex planted to 60-year-old Cabernet Franc vines. He has since added another 10 acres on soils that range from clay to yellow marl to alluvial sand.