2018 Xavier Amirault Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil "Le Vau Renou", Loire Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE "Le Vau Renou" is crafted from carefully selected old vine Cabernet Franc, grown in a distinctive limestone rich parcel in Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil. The 2018 vintage captures the character of this vineyard with its depth and complexity, achieved through biodynamic farming and minimal intervention winemaking. Aged in neutral oak barrels, this wine combines structure and finesse, reflecting both the varietals heritage and the terroirs

Transfer of berries to 25 to 90-hectolitre stainless steel and concrete vats by gravity-flow

If in some way the brothers

Mateus & Sequeira

Kept separate

which at approximately twelve years of age is an unusually mature wine for its category

they have grown long-term relationships with established growers throughout Lodi and the North Coast

100% Malolactic fermentation

acidic framework for balance and complexity

Biodynamic certification in 2017

and the Brand brothers have made a wine that is dangerously drinkable

adding minimal doses of sulfur dioxide or none at all

and joyous wines possible from the geographically- and biologically diverse Côte des Bar region