Le Rocher des Violettes (Xavier Weisskopf), Chenin Blanc, 2024 BOWLERGADI2023 and the wine rests seven

and the wine rests seven to eight months on fine lees for texture

and other barrels we find to make an approachable

fermented and aged partially in oak

goes through malolactic

Le Rocher des Violettes (Xavier Weisskopf), Chenin Blanc, 2024 BOWLERGADI2023 and the wine rests sevenXavier 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