Variety: 100% Gamay
Location: Loire, FR
Alcohol: 12.5%

Very textured with integrated tannins, with a smokiness backed by earthy red-berried smells and flavors.

Total destemming, long maceration for 11 months. 12 months of additional aging of the free run juice. Bottled without fining, filtration or any addition of sulfites.

‘Les Grandes Vignes’ is named for a specific parcel of old vines, 50 years on average, grown organically and planted on hillsides on the southern slope of the Indre. Draining soils with lots of flint, clay-limestone subsoils.