Richard Leroy Les Noels de Montbenault Chenin, Loire, Vin de France 2016 Drouhin Laroze It is a little more

It is a little more herbal and a little sweeter fruited

Now managed by Erwan and Eve Faiveley

Sit a bottle down between a few friends and it will vanish in no time at all

with gorgeous dark berries across the mid-palate and mouth-coating tannins that are grippy but not overwhelming

Richard Leroy Les Noels de Montbenault Chenin, Loire, Vin de France 2016 Drouhin Laroze It is a little moreLeaving behind their life in Paris, Richard and Sophie purchased 2ha of vines (Les Nols de Montbenault) back in 1996, initially with the idea of making botrytized, noble rot wines. 1996 and 1997 were successful but a rainy autumn in 1998 put paid to any chances of noble rot and Richard produced no wine at all. Tasting in the area, he noted that Mark Angli had produced beautiful dry wines in 1998, and he began to think that making dry wines from this