winery
Domaine des Baumard Coteaux du Layon France
Philosophy
Domaine des Baumard is the Coteaux du Layon's historic benchmark estate, producing Quarts de Chaume grand cru and Savennières from schist soils with multiple selective harvesting passes (tries successives) through November.
Reputation
Universally regarded as the Layon's defining producer; Baumard's Quarts de Chaume has been cited by Jancis Robinson as producing some of the world's greatest sweet wines, rivalling Sauternes in complexity and outlasting it in longevity.
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