Loire Valley
A nose of prune, spices and black fruit. The palate is fresh and fruity, with length and just enough volume to make it a great food pairing. If you’ve never been a fan of Cabernet Franc, watch out, this may be the wine to reconcile you with the grape variety! A wine oenophiles will love!
Cabernet Franc from old vines grown organically, planted in Ligré in 1947 on clay-silica soils at the vineyard site “Les Justices”, in the Chinon appellation. Harvesting is done by hand, with tightly controlled yields. Natural vinification: the grapes are destemmed, followed by gentle maceration by infusion (no forceful extraction), then blending of free-run and press juices, and 9 months of maturation – 50% in 500-litre barrels and 50% in vats. Bottled at the estate without fining or filtration, just a tiny bit of sulphur (18 mg/l of total SO2).
Sophie and Clément Maire-Kurdziel, just in their early forties, are respectively from Moselle and Aveyron in France, and met at the university in Montpellier. Both became oenologists, they worked for large Estates in France and abroad, before returning to the Loire Valley. Being actually close to the field and the vineyards, they quickly realized the limits of chemistry, and became more...
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Sulphites-free wine
Sulphites-free wine
Minimal sulphites
Sulphites-free wine
Minimal sulphites
Sulphites-free wine
Minimal sulphites
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