P'tit Chemin Sec, Domaine Benoit Courault 2024

Domaine Benoit Courault, Anjou

An innovative French winemaker, Benoit Courault began his career making conventional wines before embracing natural winemaking methods. In 2006, Benoit established his winery in a restored farmhouse in Faye d'Anjou, in the heart of the Loire, where he dedicated himself to producing natural, organic and biodynamic wines with a respectful and sustainable approach.

The grapes for this wine undergo spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts in the winery. Afterwards, 50% of the wine is aged in previously used French oak barrels and the rest in fibre tanks, and then bottled by hand without clarification or filtration, adding only a minimal amount of sulphur.

Depth and quality achieved. It should send shivers down your spine in anticipation of some of his big daddy wines. This has all that beautiful smoke-like reduction upon opening, blowing off to show a bucketload of bruised apple and spice-laden aromatics. 

Grape: 100% Chenin Blanc 

Organic