Le Rocher des Violettes (Xavier Weisskopf), Chenin Blanc, 2024 round and rich softened by two decades in

softened by two decades in bottle

saline but fleshy

fermenting in old cement vats and aging in barrel for wines that evolve for decades

Les Vaucrains is considered one of the two finest Premier Crus in Nuits-Saint-Georges

an east-facing site of sandy

Le Rocher des Violettes (Xavier Weisskopf), Chenin Blanc, 2024 round and rich softened by two decades inXavier Weisskopf is one of the Loire's most thrilling Chenin talents, and this is your low stakes entry into his world. He studied in Chablis and Beaune and put in four years at Saint Cosme in Gigondas before buying Le Rocher des Violettes in Montlouis sur Loire in 2005, where he farms organically certified vines, many planted before 1940. This is a dry Chenin Blanc from those old vines, made with the same purity and precision he brings to his