Domaine des Baumard Anjou Chenin Blanc Pic Martin 2022 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider and forest floor

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whose family has spent nearly twenty years stewarding benchland sites at the foot of the Mayacamas first planted in the 1870s — the same stretch of Napa that made the region's reputation

known for his meticulous vineyard work and precise winemaking

raicilleros have arguably been producing this agave spirit since before the Spanish conquest

Domaine des Baumard Anjou Chenin Blanc Pic Martin 2022 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider and forest floorBaumard made their name on sweet Chenin Quarts de Chaume, Coteaux du Layon, the wines that proved Anjou could do sugar and electricity at the same time. Pic Martin is the other side of the coin: bone dry Chenin Blanc from a single four acre plot with southwest exposure, and a new cuvee from the next generation of the family. Schist, sandstone and volcanic soils give it a hard mineral core, and whole bunch pressing keeps everything clean and precise.