Ferme de la Sansonniere (Mark Angeli) VdF Blanc Les Fouchardes 2019 121825OFFER mineral and structured rather than

mineral and structured rather than plush

Aged in bottle before release

aged in big old Slavonian casks

As is the case with all of their wines

named for second-generation distiller Kanosuke Kosama

Ferme de la Sansonniere (Mark Angeli) VdF Blanc Les Fouchardes 2019 121825OFFER mineral and structured rather thanFrom 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