Saumur Blanc Les Pentes Clos de L`Ecotard

Michel Chevré, formerly vineyard manager for Thierry Germain at Roches Neuves, founded this Courchamps estate in 2011 and went full-time with his son Thibaud in 2017. The two-hectare Clos was planted between 2009 and 2013 at 8,000 vines per hectare, with Chidaine selections, on clay-limestone with outcrops of bedrock; horse-ploughed, organic from day one. Les Pentes is a single-foudre selection from the rockiest, limestone-rich top of the Clos. The Revue du Vin de France: already among the greatest in Saumur.