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CLOS DE LA COULEE DE SERRANT’ SAVENNIERES

A single-estate appellation is when an entire AOC is under one owner, and only three exist in France: Romanee-Conti, the most famous in Burgundy, which produces arguably the world’s best wines that fetch incredible sums at auction, Chateau-Grillet in Rhone and Coulee de Serrant, which has a long and proud history under the family Joly.

Here, owner Nicholas Joly makes the world-famous Chenin Blanc, considered one of the great whites of France. Roughly 20,000 bottles are produced annually from grapes farmed biodynamically with practices like encouraging permaculture, using ambient yeast and utilising animals to plough the land. Joly is one of the pioneering vintners using the approach.