Clement Baraut

Clement Baraut Les Petites Combes 2020

Name: Clement Baraut Les Petites Combes 2020
Brand: Clement Baraut
SKU: BARAUT-PETITESCOMBES
Price: 65.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$65.00

Style: Dry, medium-bodied white; structured, precise, and mineral-driven with firm acidity and a long, concentrated finish; built to age
Grapes & Terroir: 100% Chenin Blanc; 0.4 ha in Roche aux Moines Grand Cru; schist bedrock with volcanic rhyolite and spilite topsoil; steep south/southwest-facing terraces; biodynamic viticulture; Savennières, Anjou, Loire Valley
Winemaking: Hand-harvested in two tries; botrytis-affected grapes removed; coeur de presse only; spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts; 10 months in neutral oak (2-4 years old); no filtration; minimal to zero sulfur at bottling
Serving temperature & decanting: Serve at 52-56°F; decant 30-45 minutes to open; will evolve significantly in the glass
Pairing: Veal sweetbreads with cream sauce
Similar to: Coulée de Serrant, single-vineyard Savennières from Nicolas Joly, aged Vouvray Sec

Clément Baraut Les Petites Combes 2020 is a dry white wine made from 100% Chenin Blanc grown on a 0.4-hectare plot within the Roche aux Moines Grand Cru of Savennières, in the Anjou sub-region of the Loire Valley. The vines are planted on steep south/southwest-facing terraces with schist bedrock and a volcanic topsoil of rhyolite and spilite, farmed biodynamically with no intervention after budbreak. Grapes are hand-harvested in two passes with botrytis-affected bunches removed, pressed using only the coeur de presse, and fermented with indigenous yeasts. Clément Baraut Les Petites Combes 2020 is aged 10 months in neutral oak and bottled with minimal or no added sulfur at 12% ABV.

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Clement Baraut Les Petites Combes 2020

$65.00

Producer profile

Clement Baraut

Clément Baraut grew up in Burgundy and trained as an oenologist in Beaune before arriving in Anjou in 1989, when he was engaged as a consultant oenologist to work with producers in the Savennières appellation. At the time, the prevailing practice was to harvest late with 25-30% noble rot, producing wines that were irregular in character and difficult to market to a changing consumer base. Baraut advocated a different approach: earlier harvesting, rigorous botrytis selection, and the use of only the coeur de presse — the first 80% of juice from pressing, separated from the more vegetal rebêches — a technique he refined through earlier experience in Champagne. The change produced wines of measurably greater precision and digestibility, and his influence reshaped how Savennières was made over the following decades.

Despite his training in conventional oenology, Baraut's attention shifted progressively toward the vineyard. In the 1990s, working closely with Nicolas Joly, the most prominent French advocate of biodynamics at the time, he rented two hectares to test the ideas of Rudolf Steiner and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in practice. Convinced by the results, he joined a viticultural association through which he trained hundreds of Loire growers in organic and biodynamic practices, providing technical assistance to estates willing to convert.

He began acquiring his own vines in 2007, starting with holdings in Bonnezeaux, and later purchased from Nicolas Joly the 2-hectare Le Pitrouillet parcel in Savennières, a site that had been farmed biodynamically for over 30 years. He is one of only eight vignerons to own a plot within the 33-hectare Roche aux Moines Grand Cru, where his 0.4-hectare Les Petites Combes parcel sits on steep south/southwest-facing terraces planted by Cistercian monks over bedrock of schist and volcanic spilite and rhyolite. His total holdings now cover approximately 22 hectares across Savennières, Bonnezeaux, and other Anjou appellations, alongside a small négociant project called Herbes Folles, which sources organic and biodynamic grapes from long-term partner growers in the region.

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Wine region

Loire Valley, France

avennières is a small AOC on the north bank of the Loire River in the Maine-et-Loire department of the Anjou sub-region, approximately 12 miles southwest of Angers. It covers around 170 hectares and is one of France's most geologically distinctive white wine appellations, built almost entirely on ancient metamorphic and volcanic rock: schist, spilite, rhyolite, and sandstone dominate, with thin, well-draining soils over fractured bedrock that force vine roots deep in search of water and nutrients. The appellation produces only white wines from Chenin Blanc, planted on steep south and southwest-facing slopes that drop sharply toward the Loire.

Within Savennières, two historic lieux-dits hold a higher rank. Coulée de Serrant, a monopole of around 7 hectares farmed by Nicolas Joly, has long been considered one of France's most singular white wine sites. Roche aux Moines, at 33 hectares, is larger and home to a small number of producers. Both were recently elevated to Grand Cru status within the Savennières appellation, formalizing what their most committed growers had long argued: that these sites are among the finest for Chenin Blanc anywhere in the world.

The Cistercian monks of the Abbey of Saint-Nicolas in Angers planted the first vines at Roche aux Moines in the 12th century, recognizing the exposed volcanic slopes above the Loire as particularly well-suited to vine cultivation. The Plantagenets, as Kings of England and Counts of Anjou, helped establish the reputation of these wines in the medieval period. For centuries afterward, production at Savennières was shaped by Dutch demand for sweet and off-dry styles, but the modern appellation has moved firmly toward dry wines, a shift driven in large part by producers such as Clément Baraut, who champion early harvesting, botrytis selection, and terroir-transparent winemaking over the late-harvest tradition.

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