Chenin du Val de Loire, Domaine des Forges 2025
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Why this wine
Chenin Blanc at its most direct — no oak, no sugar, just apple, stone fruit and salt. Domaine des Forges farms seriously good Chenin sites in Savennières and Quarts de Chaume, and this regional bottling is made by the same hand and picked in the same three passes.
At a glance
- Grape
- Chenin Blanc
- Region
- Loire Valley, France
- Alcohol
- 11.00%
- Body
- Light
- Acidity
- High
- Sweetness
- Dry
- Drink
- Drink now (1-3 yrs)
- Pairs with
- Seafood, Salads, Cheese
How it tastes
Green apple and ripe golden delicious lead, with stone fruit behind and a saline lift across the finish. Light in weight at 11%, fully dry, with high acidity carrying the fruit and keeping everything vibrant. Chenin Blanc 100%.
The producer
Domaine des Forges has been in the same family for five generations, run today by Stéphane Branchereau and his wife Séverine, with his father Claude still to be found in the cellar. Its 50 hectares of HVE-certified vines lie around St Aubin de Luigné in the southern Loire, where schist and carboniferous soils retain heat and push ripening in a cool northern climate; 30 hectares are planted to Chenin Blanc. The harvest is picked in three passes so only the ripest fruit is taken, then pressed and settled parcel by parcel, fermented slowly with selected yeasts in temperature-controlled stainless steel and matured on fine lees before a cross-flow filtration that keeps sulphur levels low.
Food and drinking
Serve at 8–10°C. It suits grilled sea bass, goat's cheese salad, moules marinière and roast chicken with herbs. Drink over the next three to five years; no decanting needed. Suitable for vegetarians and vegans.