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A et M Quenard Les Abymes Savoie Blanc 2021
Grape: Jacquère Region: Savoie, France
I want you to close your eyes and visualize yourself on the side of a mountain. Ahead of you in the distance are snow-capped limestone peaks veined with crisp, babbling streams; to your left is the most impossibly green hillside, dotted with purple and yellow wildflowers; to your right stretches out an expansive, cobalt sky overlooking undulating rows of vines. You feel warmed by the sun, but the air is somehow crunchy, cool, almost sparkling in its purity, like everything you see, feel, hear—even smell and taste—has been turned up to high def.
This is both the setting for and the taste of this wine. André (father) and Michel (son) Quenard (plus Michel’s son Guillaume) farm by hand 22 hectares of vines clinging to what, so far as we can tell from the photos, is roughly a 45-degree slope outside the fairytale-esque French Alps town of Chignin. There’s nothing magical about their organic farming or gentle cellar work—other than this setting. If terroir is the “sense of place” that a wine can show when you smell and taste it, and if you ever had any questions about whether terroir is a real thing, drink this wine, and then call us back.
Fruit notes: Lemon zest, green apple
Non-fruit notes: cucumber spa water, rain water over river rock, edelweiss, pine needle
Sweetness: dry
Acidity: high
Alcohol: medium minus
Body: light
Possible Pairings: pasta salad with lemon breadcrumbs and fresh herbs; caramelized onion and Gruyère tart; seeing clearly now that the rain is gone