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My Tasting Note: Ternay has the most autolytics and the fullest body in the lineup.  It is rounder, richer, and also a touch exotic. A pronounced nose of gingerbread, biscuit, red apple, and pineapple, subtly spicy, a rich and wild nose. Mostly med+ in body, good density, medium bubble persistence and textures, pronounced palate flavors sail into the long, exotic and wild finish.  What a debut!  Kind of reminds me a of a wilder more complex version of Huet's Petillant.

"Ternay" is the newest cremant sparkling wine from Étienne Bodet. It is a deeply flavored, rich version of Chenin from a warm year and with a lot of deep autolytic notes from the lees aging. The terroir is old, chalky limestone bedrock, with a clay top soils from the Saumur region. Traditional method (champenoise) with just 20 ppm added sulfur. The duration aging sur latte is 23 months.

Grape: Chenin Blanc
Terroir: Cretaceous white chalk bedrock with a silty-clay top.
Dosage: 0g/L - Brute Nature
Viticulture: Purchased grapes, organic (AB)
Vinification: Harvested at 11% potential alcohol, gently pressed, only the first press fraction is kept, low-temperature ambient yeast fermentation, full malolactic conversion, aged for 9 months in 228 and 600 L barrels, bottled and aged for 23 months on lattes, SO2 added after disgorgement (less than 20 ppm total), no dosage, brut nature.