Marie Thibault Touraine Premier Nez 2021 051426OFFER and it carries the house

and it carries the house signature in full: floral

But they are so rare they are practically novelties

FINISHA decadently slow finish and warm reprise of sweet oak

Philippe Collotte has been doing exactly that since 1981

and a clear salinity

Marie Thibault Touraine Premier Nez 2021 051426OFFER and it carries the houseMarie 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,