Francois Chidaine Montlouis Les Choisilles Sec 2023 CS20231026 Spirits Awards

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medium-bodied frame with silky texture

while the silky midpalate reveals notes of flint and white flowers

The name translates to unlimited schist

and earthy undertones with a soft

Francois Chidaine Montlouis Les Choisilles Sec 2023 CS20231026 Spirits AwardsVines have to work for a living here. Les Choisilles sits on clay and flint over tuffeau, the soft chalk the Loire chateaux were carved from, and the roots carve their own paths through the subsoil to find what they need. Francois Chidaine farms it biodynamically and presses gently, and the wine that results is the most precise thing in his dry Montlouis lineup: citrus and white peach, acacia and lily, dense yet somehow fluid, with a savory flesh and