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Domaine LES ROCHES LENOIR Chinon 2005

Wine Region: Loire Valley - France

Grape: Cabernet Franc

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About the Winery:Domaine des Roches is located in Beaumont-en-Veron in the Chinon appellation. Alain and Jérome Lenoir (father and son) inherited 3.5 hectares from Jérome's great-grandfather. The Cabernet Franc vine is around sixty years old and the soil only offers the vine 20cm of soil, the roots seek nutrients in the very hard parent rock for which the Chinonais is famous. The Chenin Blanc plot was purchased at the end of the 1950s. Customs recently assessed the vines as pre-1900 and probably pre-phylloxeratic. Surrounded by woods and land without grape varieties, this plot could have escaped the insect.

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