Description

Bernard Baudry began his domain in 1975 with two hectares, after working for the great Loire Valley oenologist and gourmet, Jacques Puisais. Gradually expanding the estate with great parcels on the varied terroirs of Chinon, Bernard and his son Matthieu now farm 32 hectares in the communes of Cravant-les-Coteaux and Chinon. The estate is indisputably one of the great wine domains of France. All aspects of winemaking at Domaine Baudry are performed with the utmost intelligence and care: superb organic farming with their own composts, careful manual harvests, vinifications perfectly suited to each terroir with no added SO2 – only a tiny adddition as needed before bottling – and aging in carefully chosen cement or barrels, with no new oak in the cellar.