50% Côt/50% Grolleau. This méthode ancestrale rosé is Pinon's only non-Chenin wine, made from black grapes planted by François Pinon's father in order to supply their vineyard workers with red wine. The parcel is just 0.4 hectare in size, so production is small, if it happens at all (as it did not...
90% Côt/10% Gamay. La Guerrerie is an estate parcel named in reference to its history as a battlefield in the Hundred Years' War. It is a flat, clay-rich site co-planted with Côt, aka Malbec, and Gamay in the 1980's. The Puzelats farm it organically and harvest it by hand. Typical of Tue-Boeuf reds...
100% Côt aka Malbec. Ranging from 20 to 80 years old, Valérie's Gamay vines are planted on clay-limestone soils in the heart of the Cher valley of the Touraine region in the Loire. She farms them organically (certified) and works and harvests them by hand. The grapes are destemmed and go directly...