Quenard 2024 Chignin "Les Roches De La Savoyarde", Savoie

Jacquére is the alpine grape responsible for this delicious, tangy wine that tastes like a cold mountain stream.  So fresh, so minerally, so good.  Stock up on this easy-to-drink dry white wine and enjoy it with cow’s milk cheeses, fondue, or by itself for a lively aperitif.  Chignin is the region, a little over an hour’s drive south of Geneva.

"Quenard’s bracing Alpine whites have long been favorites of the staff here at Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant.  I remember seeing a colleague post a photo of a bottle of Chignin while aboard a sun-drenched sailboat last year, and I thought, I would like to do that! The following weekend, I brought a bottle to a picnic at the Berkeley Marina—not quite a boat, but close enough. Most recently, I enjoyed a glass while watching the day turn slowly into dusk. We often tout Quenard’s wines as perfect après-ski, a nod to their idyllic mountain roots, but this aromatic bottling of Savoie’s Jacquère strikes me as distinctly apt for warm weather.  Redolent of white peach, it’s lush and perfectly tart, finishing with a chalky freshness that recalls the limestone soil in which it grows. Notes of white flowers—somewhere between jasmine and citrus blossom—evoke the seasons ahead. I’m a fan of any bottle that’s versatile enough to go from boat, to picnic, to dinner table, and this blanc delivers. It has an energetic glow and goes with just about anything at the table—a canned sardine and green garden salad was a recent knock-out. And this delicious season with its long, lazy sunsets makes a good match for a cold glass all on its own."--Allyson Noman, Kermit Lynch Imports