£27.76
Baptiste Nayrand Zenith Chenin 2020
Country: France
Region: Coteaux Lyonnais
Grape: Chenin Blanc
Colour: White
Bottle Size: 75cl
Alcohol: 12.5%
Vintage: 2020
- PRODUCER NOTES
- FARMING & WINEMAKING NOTES
You know we love Gamay. We tasted Baptiste Nayrand’s 2018 wines for the first time on one of our trips to Beaujolais (he was exhibiting there as an outsider) and we were genuinely impressed. His vineyards are in Côteaux du Lyonnais which is between Beaujolais and the Northern Rhône. His domaine was founded in 2014, the vineyards for Vésanie were planted in the 1970s and are located in the village of Grigny. To try and give this wine some context it has plenty in common with the fantastic Northern Rhône Gamay La Souteronne or cross a great cru Beaujolais with Côte-Rôtie (in the JM Stephan style).
Farming on the granitic soils is fully organic (with biodynamic principles), vinification is without any additions.
2020 is the first vintage of Zenith Chenin. The grapes come from a vineyard that Baptiste planted in Millery in 2018. A light orange wine from 50% direct pressed and 50% macerated fruit (one month on the skins). Fermented using indigenous yeast, no temperature control, no SO2. Aged 6-10 months in new, untoasted oak barrels.
PRODUCER NOTES
You know we love Gamay. We tasted Baptiste Nayrand’s 2018 wines for the first time on one of our trips to Beaujolais (he was exhibiting there as an outsider) and we were genuinely impressed. His vineyards are in Côteaux du Lyonnais which is between Beaujolais and the Northern Rhône. His domaine was founded in 2014, the vineyards for Vésanie were planted in the 1970s and are located in the village of Grigny. To try and give this wine some context it has plenty in common with the fantastic Northern Rhône Gamay La Souteronne or cross a great cru Beaujolais with Côte-Rôtie (in the JM Stephan style).
Farming on the granitic soils is fully organic (with biodynamic principles), vinification is without any additions.
FARMING & WINEMAKING NOTES
2020 is the first vintage of Zenith Chenin. The grapes come from a vineyard that Baptiste planted in Millery in 2018. A light orange wine from 50% direct pressed and 50% macerated fruit (one month on the skins). Fermented using indigenous yeast, no temperature control, no SO2. Aged 6-10 months in new, untoasted oak barrels.