Richard Leroy Les Noels de Montbenault Chenin, Loire, Vin de France 2016 Drouhin Laroze On the nose the wine

On the nose the wine evokes

Chardonnay

Good power

with no racking/return

Richard Leroy Les Noels de Montbenault Chenin, Loire, Vin de France 2016 Drouhin Laroze On the nose the wineLeaving behind their life in Paris, Richard and Sophie purchased 2ha of vines (Les Nols de Montbenault) back in 1996, initially with the idea of making botrytized, noble rot wines. 1996 and 1997 were successful but a rainy autumn in 1998 put paid to any chances of noble rot and Richard produced no wine at all. Tasting in the area, he noted that Mark Angli had produced beautiful dry wines in 1998, and he began to think that making dry wines from this