Ferme de la Sansonniere (Mark Angeli) VdF Blanc Les Fouchardes 2019 Wine Bar | Featured White a drop of salinity

a drop of salinity

This is old-vine Sonoma Zinfandel as it should be: light on its feet

born out of necessity when hail and frost thinned the crop at his own Jura estate

sharing the same old Garnacha and Samso vines and much of the same rugged country

Ferme de la Sansonniere (Mark Angeli) VdF Blanc Les Fouchardes 2019 Wine Bar | Featured White a drop of salinityFrom one of the founding fathers of France's natural wine movement, this is dry Chenin Blanc from the Loire's Anjou at its most pure and saline. Mark Angeli took over La Ferme de la Sansonniere in Thouarce in 1989 and farmed biodynamically from the very start, helping prove what serious dry Chenin could be. Les Fouchardes comes from a single parcel of red clay over schist, picked ripe, gently pressed in an old vertical wood press, and aged in used