Loire - 5 / 8

In a superb 2023 vintage, château Yvonne has produced a superb cuvée La Folie. The wine is rich, with very intense fruit. As always with this cuvée, we recommend decanting 2 hours before tasting, or storing for 3 to 5 years in a temperature-stable, high-hygrometry cellar.

This white from Sancerre du Domaine du Pré Semelé is a charming, gourmet white. It has a thiolate nose, with notes of citrus and yellow fruit. The palate is full-bodied, mineral and fruity. A lovely, gourmet Sancerre!

Les Fours à Chaux du Château Du Hureau is a magnificent parcel of land. Year after year, the Vatan family offers fabulous Cabernets, combining fruit intensity and complexity. This great Loire and gastronomic wine is a fine example of this!

A magnificent natural Chinon—elegant, precise, and easy to drink. A major success for the estate! The Cabernet Franc we love!

The Perdriziere du domaine Sérol is the estate's grand cuvée. Both powerful and refined, it's the estate's benchmark cuvée. A real favorite!Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2021 : 93/100

The Closiers cuvée from Domaine des Closiers is fresh and elegant in this successful 2021 vintage: a gourmet and supple Loire wine, easy to marry, to drink over 5 to 7 years.

Les Tuffeaux du Domaine François Chidaine is a great Loire demi-sec. This well-balanced organic wine features notes of white and yellow fruits. The residual sugar gives the wine roundness without weighing it down. Try it with foie gras or apricot tagine! Guide des meilleurs vin de France 2023 : 91/100

The cuvée Les Tonnes Barils du domaine Bonnigal-Bodet is a superb chenin. An organic white wine that develops on notes of ripe fruit,a beautiful aromatic complexity from the ageing and an elegant bitterness on the finish.

Fondis du Clos des Quarterons is an exceptional Saint-Nicolas de Bourgueil. Intense, powerful and racy, it combines finesse and complexity, power and greed in this lovely 2021 vintage. A high-flying cuvée.

This Pouilly-Fumé Les Champs des Chaumes develops expressive white fruit and citrus notes on the nose. On the palate, this organic wine is balanced, endowed with lovely freshness and fruit (white peaches, apricots); nice mineral finish!

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2025: 92/100

The Saponaire du domaine Ogereau has a nose of ripe white fruits and floral notes. On the palate, this Savennières has a fine, airy texture thanks to the sandy terroirs.

Remus 2025 is a full-bodied dry Montlouis from the Domaine de la Taille aux Loups — "a superb example of balance, with a clean attack, rich on the palate, and a multitude of sensations of freshness, bitterness, and fullness. It’s a great Chenin.”

The color is a brilliant pale gold. The nose is delicate with notes of pear, lime, and quince, pronounced minerality, and a light touch of verbena and ginger. The palate is full-bodied and creamy; a decidedly dry Chenin with tension throughout the tasting and a long, briny finish. Serve at 11–12 °C.

100% organic Chenin Blanc, 50–80-year-old vines, Montlouis clay-limestone soil, yield 20 hl/ha. Slow fermentation with native yeasts in barrels, aged for 1 year.

5★/5 Bettane+Desseauve. Aging potential: 2027–2037.

Source blanc des Jardins de Fleury is a very successful natural chenin: straightforward, gourmand, slightly spicy this natural wine is a fine food wine

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La Diablesse is the most virile and animal of all the Château de Coulaine cuvées. A few years in the cellar will do him a world of good!

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2025 : 93/100

La Part des Anges du domaine de la Noblaie is a gourmet white Chinon. Aged in casks, this organic wine features woody, exotic fruit and citrus notes. Superb length. A botrytized but dry Chenin, aged in 5 barrels directly after pressing. Superb!

A magnificent Coteaux du Layon from Domaine Ogereau: a rich and refined Chenin, full of elegance!

The Peu Morier from domain Vincent Careme has a nose of great freshness. It features notes of dried fruit, apples and pears. The palate is full-bodied, rich and smooth, with mineral notes on the finish. A great success!

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2024: 93/100

From poor, south-facing soils, Haut de la Butte develops beautiful notes of blackcurrant and redcurrant, with a sensation of freshness on the palate, combined with a very fine tannic structure. Decant for 2 hours.

Triple Zéro du Domaine de la Taille aux Loups is the benchmark bubbly on Montlouis. This grand chenin is not dosed. The result is an airy, complex bubble that needs a few years to fully reveal itself. Worthy of a very good champagne. Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2017 : 15/20

Clef de sol blanc de la Grange Tiphaine is a superb Montlouis. This organic Chenin has great cellaring potential. This white wine is mineral and slender: it develops notes of citrus, yellow fruit and flint. A superb gastronomic wine with good length.

The cuvée Les Beauvoirs from domaine Bonnigal-Bodet has a slender balance, with notes of yellow fruit and lightly toasted touches, a soft, long texture, resting on fine bitters on the finish.

Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2024: 91/100

Effusion 2020 is a magnificent whiteAanjou from Domaine P Baudouin, mineral, chiselled and elegant, a magnificent white!

The Savennières Croix Picot du domaine de la Bergerie is a magnificent Loire Gastronomie wine. Made from chenin grapes, we feel the vintage effect with a roundness in the wine that testifies to the beautiful maturities of this 2019 year. The wine develops notes of yellow fruit, almonds and citrus. The whole is refreshed by saline notes on the finish.

La cuvée Rémus du Domaine de la Taille aux Loups possesses a lovely nose of white-fleshed fruit (peach, apricot) and flowers (acacia). The palate is taut, lively and elegant. Yellow fruits such as mirabelle plum are present, with a lovely greediness. Long finish. Guide des meilleurs vins de France 2022 : 90/100