Producer:
Grape Variety:
100% Cabernet Franc
Tasting Note:
The harvest is picked by hand into small crates and carefully sorted upon entry to the cellar. The fruit is only 50% de-stemmed with 50% left whole bunch and moved to concrete vat mechanically without any pumping over. It’s fermented by natural yeasts and without any additives other than a minimal dose of sulfites at the start of fermentation with a maceration of around 30 days. Then the wine is aged for 12 months in concrete tank. It’s bottled unfined and unfiltered. Beautiful nose, vegetal, leather, red fruits, garrigue, almost Grenache Noir, black pepper, will be very good with cacao. Quite different texture, character, more sweet fruit, bone dry, feel less acidity, more astringent, more bass notes, salty, rich, long sappy, astringent finish.
Vinification:
Altogether Antoine has 11.4 hectares of vineyards. 10.3 hectares planted to Cabernet Franc and 1.1 hectares of Chenin Blanc with Biodynamic Viticultures.
Scores:
92 Points Falstaff