Marie Thibault Touraine Premier Nez 2021 Wine Bar | Featured White This over-achieving sparkling rosé spends

This over-achieving sparkling rosé spends 30 months on the lees before being disgorged

Pierre's twenty years (1988-2008) at Domaine Leflaive set the template

to let the place speak

The Delille family farms limestone-clay soils on a south-facing amphitheater above the Mediterranean

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Marie Thibault Touraine Premier Nez 2021 Wine Bar | Featured White This over-achieving sparkling rosé spendsMarie Thibault traded a research career in biology and oenology for a 3. 5 hectare parcel in Azay le Rideau, one of the Touraine's quietest corners. She trained under Francois Chidaine in Montlouis, where she fell hard for Chenin Blanc, and her own farming has been certified organic since 2014. Premier Nez is her flagship Chenin old vines on white clay and silex, aged mostly in old barriques with a touch of clay amphora. The 2021 is bone dry, mineral,