Bernaudeau, Vin de France Blanc Les Ongles, 2016 Freisa and Friends SO1024 but still unmistakably Volnay

but still unmistakably Volnay

with a little chill it becomes a house red

with renewed focus on organic viticulture under the Derichebourg family

It's a field blend of 20-plus interplanted varieties

The result: a wine of ethereal finesse and aromatic precision

Bernaudeau, Vin de France Blanc Les Ongles, 2016 Freisa and Friends SO1024 but still unmistakably VolnayOne of the Loire's genuinely hard to find Chenins, and a decade in bottle has done it nothing but good. Stephane Bernaudeau spent close to twenty years working alongside Mark Angeli at La Ferme de la Sansonniere before striking out on his own in Anjou, and he farms roughly three hectares biodynamically, much of it worked by horse and trained in old fashioned gobelet rather than on wires. Les Ongles comes from a southwest facing plot of around thirty