Francois Chidaine Montlouis Sec Clos du Breuil 2024 NO20230823 and the wine is finished

and the wine is finished as brut nature so the fruit and aged complexity carry through without dosage

The three-weeks of the Assemblage process resulted again in evolution

The cool maritime influence of Santa Rita Hills meets limestone-rich soils to create a bright

The wine fermented with native yeasts in concrete eggs and aged nine months on lees

Francois Chidaine Montlouis Sec Clos du Breuil 2024 NO20230823 and the wine is finishedChidaine's single parcel Clos du Breuil ranks among Loire's most refined Chenin expressions. Farmed biodynamically on flinty clay and limestone soils with obsessive care, the wine reveals green apple, flint, and acacia in its aromatic complexity. The 2024 captures acute acidity balanced with Chenin's weight, offering honeycomb, minerality, and the kind of freshness that makes you pour again immediately. Proof that Montlouis deserves the attention