Thibaud Boudignon Anjou Blanc 2024

Thibaud Boudignon began making his own wine in 2009 after working in Burgundy and at Château Soucherie in the Loire, and now farms plots across Anjou and Savennières under strict organic practice. This is his Anjou Blanc, a dry Chenin Blanc grown on the schist and sandstone soils that run through the western Loire. Chenin grown on these hard metamorphic soils gives high natural acidity and a wet-stone character, and the low yields Boudignon works with concentrate the fruit. The wine spends twelve months in French oak barrels, where slow lees contact and a measured oxygen exchange build texture and a light savoury depth without adding obvious wood. Chenin has the acid backbone to carry that ageing and comes out broader but still tight. The colour is bright straw. The nose is luminous and refined, with lemon oil, juicy pear and green apple over thyme and a touch of spice. The palate is dry and mineral, with beeswax and almond filling the mid-palate and a long, savoury finish. This is a wine with the structure to age several years. Serve at 10 to 12 degrees.