Thomas Frissant - 'Tout en Canon' - Chardonnay - Loire Valley, FR - 2023

Notes from the Winery/Importer

Chardonnay, ‘Tout En Canon’ is harvested from 25-year-old, east and west-facing vines on a gentle slope of flint and clay bedrock with flint rock, clay, and sand topsoil at 105 meters altitude. In the cellar it ferments for 2 weeks at a maximum of 18°C in steel. It’s aged 3 months in steel and is filtered before bottling without fining.

Notes on the Producer

After refining his craft in celebrated vineyards and cellars of Burgundy, the Northern Rhône, and Bandol, and completing harvests in New Zealand and Australia, twenty-seven-year-old Thomas Frissant returned in 2019 to his family’s fourteen hectares in the Touraine Amboise appellation. Perched just twenty-five kilometers east of Tours, one kilometer south of the Loire River above the floodplain commune of Mosnes, he immediately embraced organic viticulture by converting his clay and silex plots, planted between the 1940s and 1990s with Sauvignon, Chenin, Chardonnay, Gamay, Grolleau, and Côt, achieving certification by 2022. Thomas now crafts wines with precision—unpretentious yet impeccably made. Anchored in these quiet yet storied terroirs of the Loire, his range offers clear and honest expressions of this historic enclave.