Thibaud Boudignon Savennieres Clos de la Hutte 2023 NO20231025 and a genuinely good thing

and a genuinely good thing to hand someone who insists they don't like beer

So when you find one

The blend of Parellada

The resulting Cabernet is a masterwork of selective farming: 32 months in 100% new French oak yielded a wine of serious depth and concentration

red-fruited kind rather than the muscular kind — three and a half hectares of vines

Thibaud Boudignon Savennieres Clos de la Hutte 2023 NO20231025 and a genuinely good thingClos de la Hutte is one of Boudignon's single vineyard Savennires, drawn from old vine Chenin Blanc on the steep schist and volcanic rhyolite slopes that define this appellation. Boudignon works almost exclusively with Chenin Blanc, and his wines from Savennires and Anjou are among the best in the world. Like all of his wines, this is made in the vineyard. Thibaud has farmed organically since the beginning; he's a vigneron in the truest sense, picking