On steep schist slopes above the Loire near Angers, Chenin Blanc makes one of France's most singular dry whites: powerful, austere and intensely mineral, closed and even forbidding in youth, and magnificent after a decade of quince, honey and flint. This is dry Chenin at its most serious.
The tiny enclaves of Coulée de Serrant and Roche aux Moines are among the great white terroirs of France, farmed biodynamically and famous the wine world over. Savennières is a wine that demands patience — and rewards it like few others.