Ask what Chenin Blanc can do and the honest answer is: everything — dry, sweet, sparkling, it excels at all three. Francois Chidaine has spent a career arguing that Montlouis, the quieter appellation across the Loire from Vouvray, deserves the same respect, and Les Bournais is his strongest evidence. Clay-limestone soils at Husseau in Montlouis-sur-Loire, biodynamic farming, five to six months on fine lees in demi-muids. It's the exotic bottle in his cellar: white fruit that opens into pineapple and mango, an unexpected turn for this terroir, carried on the delicate salinity that marks all his wines. The 2024 is young and coiled. Open it now with a decant, or better, hide it for a few years.