AS & JF Quenard, Chignin Anne de la Biguerne, 2025

Name: AS & JF Quenard, Chignin Anne de la Biguerne, 2025
Brand: Polaner [POL]
SKU: NYC-W-POL-`FQN101`-090126-14
Price: 29.99 USD
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White Wine from Savoie, France

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This is Jacquère from the oldest parcel on the estate, with the soil still turned by horse. That matters because Jacquère has spent most of its history as a high-yielding afterthought, cropped for light cafe whites; drop the yields onto century-old vines and the grape turns saline, chiseled and genuinely mineral. Chignin's vineyards climb steep, sun-facing slopes of limestone scree below the Bauges massif, around 370 meters, looking across at the Belledonne peaks — good exposure, poor stony soil, cold alpine nights. Anne-Sophie Quénard took over in 2020, the first woman to lead a family that has farmed here since 1644, and she completed organic certification in 2024. Everything is picked by hand, fermented with native yeasts and raised in tank, so there's no oak anywhere near it. Serve it properly cold and drink it young, while the snap is at its brightest.

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More about AS & JF Quenard

The Savoie's mountain whites are some of France's best answers to a craving for mineral, limestone-driven wine, and this Chignin estate shows why. The Quénards have farmed Chignin's steep hillsides since 1644, passing the domaine from father to son for well over three centuries until Anne-Sophie Quénard took the reins. She is the first woman to lead it.

Her father Jean-François took over from his own father in 1987, after studying wine in Dijon and working in Bordeaux and California, and was influenced by the teachings of Jules Chauvet, the godfather of natural wine. Anne-Sophie trained at the wine school in Beaune before joining him. The family's 19 or so hectares sit on limestone-clay slopes beside the ruins of the old Château de Chignin, in the Alps south-east of Chambéry. About 90 percent of the vineyard work is done by hand, and the estate farms organically and has been working toward certification.

Fermentations use native yeasts and parcels are vinified separately. The whites come from Jacquère, Bergeron (Chignin's name for Roussanne) and Altesse, and the reds from peppery Mondeuse and the rare Persan. Look to the Jacquères, like Anne de la Biguerne, for saline, Chablis-like snap, and to the Mondeuse for crunchy, black-peppered mountain red.

Wine Details

Grape Variety

Jacquere
Vintage

2025
Size

750ml
Farming Practice

Organic
Style

Aromatic
Sweetness

Dry
Body

Light Bodied

Flatiron's Take

From the Importer

What Polaner Selections has to say about this wine:

Vineyard

A selection of the oldest [centenaire] vines at the domaine, planted in 1925.

Orientation

South-facing

Soil

Clay-limestone, limestone scree, and moraine

Viticulture

ECOCERT certification. Parcelle is worked with a horse; hand-harvested.

Vinification

Vinified in tank

Aging

Aged in tank on the lees

Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Made for alpine cheese - raclette, fondue, a young Beaufort or Tomme de Savoie - and just as good with trout, oysters, or a plate of charcuterie and cornichons. It also handles fried food, from tempura to a schnitzel, better than most whites its weight.

Tasting Profile

Aromas of white flowers, green apple, lemon peel and crushed stone. Light-bodied and bone dry, with bright, cutting acidity and a chalky, almost saline texture in place of obvious fruit sweetness. The finish is clean, mineral and quite long for a wine this light.