Anjou Blanc Les Rouannières

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In the glass

Aroma: white peach, honeysuckle, lemon, stone

Palate: citrus, stone fruit, saline mineral, honey

Single-vineyard Anjou Blanc from a fractured basalt parcel atop the hillside. Microclimate warmth gives the wine ripe stone fruit; basalt bedrock keeps chalk minerality.

What it pairs with

• Pike-perch with beurre blanc Loire freshwater fish in butter sauce meets the wine's stone-fruit depth and saline lift.More wines for fish →
• Roast capon with truffles White-meat poultry and earthy truffle bridge to the wine's stone-fruit and basalt mineral.More wines for chicken and white meat →
• Lobster thermidor Creamy gratin shellfish demands the wine's body, stone fruit and saline finish.More wines for lobster →
• Aged Comté Hazelnut crystallisation in 24+ month Comté finds the wine's stone fruit and honey lift.More wines for aged hard cheese →

With cheese

Pouligny-Saint-Pierre Our pick The white Pouligny-Saint-Pierre is tangy with dried-fruit flavours. A dry Chenin from Anjou or Saumur, raised in tank, amphora or mostly older oak, has the acidity to match the tang and enough weight to stand beside the dense, creamy paste.

History

Les Rouannières is one of Pierre-Bise's finest single-vineyards. The parcel sits at the crest of the hillside on fractured basalts with a 20-kilometre view facing south, in a microclimate warmer than surroundings.

1. 1995Single-vineyard Les Rouannières bottling established by Claude Papin

Facts

Producer

Château Pierre-Bise · visiting guide

Grapes

Chenin Blanc (100%)

Classification

Anjou AOC

Oak

Fermented in older oak barrels and demi-muids; aged around 12 months on fine lees

ABV

13.5%

Price

EUR 25 to 40 at retail

Drinking window

3-15 from vintage

First vintage

1995

Organic

ORGANIC CERTIFIED

Vegan

Yes (no animal-derived fining)

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