Products tagged with Loire Valley

Partial whole cluster keeps this Gamay structured and complex, with crunchy minerals and an array of dark fruits. Winemaker Bertjan, originally from the Netherlands, was the first person to import natural wines to his home country. He then went all in and

A true to form Loire Gamay; earthier and a little more structured than your average Beaujolais, but still with some bright, summery red fruits peaking through. The domaine is in it’s fourth generation of winemakers.

One thing I love about Loire valley is the tiny obscure appellations hidden around every bend, one such being La Vendée. Just south of Muscadet, it’s Atlantic influence imparts fresh minerality and brightness. The presence of Chard in this blend balances

Powerful, uncompromising and structured, with high voltage acidity, minerality, and a touch of apricot. In typical Savennières form, this wine should be either decanted or aged for as long as possible. If this is done, the wine will reward with layers and

The Baudry estate is a benchmark in Chinon, producing textured wines with excellent balance. This is their basic cuvée, designed for early drinking. It’s an incredibly pure expression of Cab Franc; satiny texture, brilliant red fruit, touches of black pep

Christine & Joel Menard have quietly become almost cultish figures in the natural wine scene over the course of making wines for the past thirty years. 2017 was a disaster of a harvest, so we only got one case of this wine… at $19 a bottle, I would sugges

Incredibly precise, mineral driven wine coming from an estate over 500 years old. This is expressly what makes Sancerre so special & celebrated. The most noticeable quality here is the incredibly long, wet-stone finish, but the subtle star is the intricat

Terres Blondes is a project of the extraordinary Marionnet family…Jean-Sebastien carries on his father Henry’s practices of organic, non-oaked Gamay – showcasing the tasty, bright, fresh fruit in Touraine. This wine is a steal. Crunchy red berries, beauti

Domaine Olga Raffault has been a benchmark for Chinon wines for decades. They make a number of beautiful wines, all with manual work in the vineyards & minimal intervention. Les Picasses is one of the area’s prime sites and this is Raffault’s most structu

Classic green pepper and iron mineral, but with an almost Chinon-esque depth, in part thanks to flint-based soils atypical for Saumur. The Keller-Pire family took over the estate in 1998, creating a micro-ecosystem. The estate is LPO (League for the Prote

An aromatic expression of Cab Franc thanks to sandy soils found near the banks of the Loire. Bottle age in magnum has done nothing but good things for this cuvée. Winemakers Corinne and James Petit only tend Cab Franc and share a philosophic vision for i

Complex stoniness shines through thanks to Black Schist and Quartz soils. There’s a richness and depth and almost a touch of oxidation to boot. It appears that La Grange aux Belles can do no wrong…