50% Gamay/50% Pineau d'Aunis. Pollux is usually all or at least mainly Gamay, but Gamay is hard to ripen so far north (hence Pollux not being made annually to begin with) and the Nicolas family is not replacing them as they become unproductive with age; Pineau d'Aunis plays a prominent role in...

70% Cabernet Franc/30% Merlot. Only 3 of Pépière's 43 certifed-biodynamic hectares of vines are planted to black grapes: Côt, Merlot and Cabernet Franc (known locally as Breton). They are in the 10-hectare "home" vineyard in Clisson, known best for the Muscadet from its granite soils de Bourgogne...

100% Cabernet Franc. Château Fouquet is a lieu-dit in the village of Brézé 10 kilometers east of Saumur and just outside of the Saumur-Champigny AOC. Founder Paul Filliatreau acquired some partly abandoned Cabernet Franc vines here in 1987 and began replanting in 1989 with massale cuttings from his...