From organic vines between 15-45 years from limestone soils. Damien raises this wine in tank, no wood involvement. The result is a wine with purity, structure, velvet, bones, dusty fruit... read more →
Clos Roche Blanche is gone but the genetic material for the wine lives on in loving granitic instead of limestone soils. Fermentation is preceded by a four-day cold maceration. Only... read more →
Guoin’s wines are always quiet and shy and loving. The prestige, from older vines up to 80 years, is aged in wood, but never woody. Buy a bunch and give... read more →
From three parcels of schist and vines between 16–90 years old comes a broad, horizontal, delicious wine. After a touch of pot on the nose comes the orange and tangerine... read more →
There’s such good stuff going on those schist-based soils of Rablay/Layon, and this entry from Bruno Richard was stunning. There was plenty flesh and pithy skin firmness and tension. A... read more →
Some of the Guion are my new house wines. There is a very clear progression in them from simple delicious to more serious to wow. This cuvée, between the two... read more →
When Clos Roche Blanche (Catherine Roussel and Didier Barrouillet) retired, the world mourned the loss and that included losing one of the Loire’s most beautiful pineau d’aunis. Well, this was... read more →
Stéphane Erissé makes subtle wines of elegance from 3 hectares of vines with an average age of 90 in Saint Georges-Sur-Layon. This chenin is subdued and extremely classy. You might... read more →
Like the man, Mark Angéli’s wines are a peaceful journey into sensibility. The La Lune, both the regular and the one raised in amphore is a blend from three vineyards... read more →
Mark Angéli treats his special single-vineyard wine to a two-year élevage, and it always seems rounder, fuller, a bit more classic with a bitter edge and bracing rhubarb. Don’t leave... read more →