Henri Chauvet, A Fleur de Peau Cotes d`Auvergne White, 2023 so070123 4th of july offer Expect Sauvignon in the Miani

Expect Sauvignon in the Miani register: ripe rather than green

this Sauvignon Blanc shows everything Tement does best: deep limestone minerality

while 80% of the base wine ages in oak for roundness

It was expected to need another decade to soften when reviewed in 2015

but it also produced Syrahs that are fragrant and light on their feet

Henri Chauvet, A Fleur de Peau Cotes d`Auvergne White, 2023 so070123 4th of july offer Expect Sauvignon in the MianiChardonnay grown on decomposed basalt high in the Auvergne, which is about as far from a generic Chardonnay as this grape gets. Henri Chauvet left a career in banking, trained under Thierry Allemand in Cornas and Jerome Bressy at Gourt de Mautens, and in 2021 took over Annie Sauvat's old estate in Boudes, in the volcanic hills of the Puy de Dome; he put the roughly ten hectares into organic conversion straight away. The name is a French idiom, 'a