Ferme de la Sansonniere (Mark Angeli) VdF Blanc Les Fouchardes 2019 CS20230731 with a long and sweet

with a long and sweet marzipan finish

aged for years in the house's chalk cellars beneath Ay

The terroir runs from sandy clay into gravel

There's no heavy oak or extraction getting in the way

Ferme de la Sansonniere (Mark Angeli) VdF Blanc Les Fouchardes 2019 CS20230731 with a long and sweetFrom one of the founding fathers of France's natural wine movement, this is dry Chenin Blanc from the Loire's Anjou at its most pure and saline. Mark Angeli took over La Ferme de la Sansonniere in Thouarce in 1989 and farmed biodynamically from the very start, helping prove what serious dry Chenin could be. Les Fouchardes comes from a single parcel of red clay over schist, picked ripe, gently pressed in an old vertical wood press, and aged in used