2024 Domaine du Clos Naudin Vouvray Sec

Founded in Vouvray in 1923, Domaine du Clos Naudin produces some of the most celebrated and remarkably long-lived Chenin Blancs in the Loire Valley. Run today by Vincent Foreau alongside longtime cellar master Hubert Vacher, the estate spans just 11.5 hectares, with three-quarters of its holdings positioned on the prized Première Côte in vineyards like Les Perruches. Long a quiet staple on the wine lists of France's top restaurants, the estate practices minimal-input viticulture, fermenting with natural yeasts in mostly aged 300-liter barrels with roughly 5% new oak. Blocking malolactic fermentation entirely, Foreau crafts dry, demi-sec, sweet, and sparkling cuvées defined by crystalline purity, chalky precision, and extraordinary ageability.

Clos Naudin's Sec remains a reference point for dry Loire Chenin, historically defined by a strict, uncompromising profile that carries barely 3.5 grams of residual sugar. From a cooler vintage, this 2024 offers textbook tension and delicacy, driven by bright acidity and the estate’s signature limestone minerality. It delivers the linear focus, structural purity, and long aging potential that have secured this bottling's place on France's best wine lists for generations.