Issue No. 25: October 2015
The Wine Recommendations
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Le Raisin à Plume
2014 Patis des Rosiers
Where | Coteaux d’Ancenis, Loire Valley, France |
Grape | Gamay |
Ag | Biodynamic |
SO2 | None added |
Price | $18 |
Former sommelier Jacques Février has made his first vintage from schist and gneiss soil in the Coteaux d’Ancenis. Where is that? Between Nantes and Angers. I kept on returning to taste this bottle over a series of days. True, at first it’s pretty fizzy with all of that trapped CO2, but dump into a pitcher and swirl the crap out of it. When it settles down, you’ll be charmed by the cherry and prettiness. Ethereal with punch.
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Domaine de la Pépière
2014 La Pépiè Cabernet Franc
Where | Loire Valley, France |
Grape | Cabernet Franc, Merlot |
Ag | Organic |
SO2 | Tiny |
Price | $14 |
The god of red wine shone down on melon-master Marc Ollivier in this vintage, and I’ll be extolling the virtues of all of his cuvées, but let’s start here with a wine that I would hold up to the Finger Lakes as an aspirational wine. It has juice. It has structure. It is a little country wine in the best of worlds. Earth, fruit, medium weight. Glouciousness.