Coteaux de L'Aubance

Coteaux de L’Aubance is a good, if rarely exceptional, source of lighter-style sweet Chenin Blanc from the Anjou appellation, from schistous rocky slopes overlooking the Aubance tributary of the Loire just south of Angers. On occasions the fruit is blessed with noble rot but more often than not it’s simply ‘passerillé’ (desiccated) when hand-harvested by ‘trie’. Most of the region is devoted to producing dry red and white Anjou wines of little character.