Baudry-Dutour: Vineyards
Today the shop window for Baudry-Dutour is a domaine situated on the main road between Chinon and Cravant-les-Coteaux, the Cave du Coteau de Sonnay (pictured below), which is located next-door to the house where Bernard Baudry lives, and is sandwiched between Bernard’s house and the Bernard Baudry cellars. This is not one of the six domaines upon which this empire is built though, and it serves more as a tasting room and offices.
I explore the six vineyards, with a focus on the four located in Chinon, in more detail below.
Domaine de la Perrière is located on the flat alluvial soils close to the Vienne, below the slopes of Panzoult; higher up the terraces we find Domaine de Pallus, Domaine de Beauséjour and Domaine Grosbois, while on the same terroir to the east sits the domaine of Charles Pain. This is the original Baudry estate, and Christophe Baudry settled in the house that is situated in the centre of the vineyard here. The majority of the domaine’s vines are closely approximated to the cellars, although there are some smaller parcels which are somewhat more scattered. There are 26 hectares of land here, the soils entirely composed of alluvial sand and gravel, and the red vines are 100% Cabernet Franc.
