La Petite Gaule du Matin Pét-Nat 2020

Frantz Saumon is a characterful and charismatic French vigneron making stunning natural wines in Loire’s Montlouis AOC, on the Loire river’s Southern bank. Before deciding to change his life and beginning to make wine in 2002 he had worked in Canada and France as a forest ranger. The encounter with Domaine Le Briseau’s Christian Chaussard, a veritable legend in the natural wine world, was influential towards this decision and the organic and biodynamic farming that Frantz decided to embrace. He lovingly tends to several plots of Chenin Blanc with an average age of 50, although the most venerable vines can be up to 100 years old. His wines are imbued with a luminous purity, bright focus, and sheer, unbridled joy.