Bonnezeaux Chateau de Fesles (50cl)

Bonnezeaux, a Chenin-only sweet appellation on three south-facing schist hills above Thouarcé, won AOC status in 1951 after lobbying by Jean Boivin, then owner of Château de Fesles, where the vineyards are first documented in 1055. In the Bernard Germain era, vines averaged 50 years old and were picked in repeated passes for fully botrytised fruit, six in 1996. Decanter called it a revered Loire estate.