with a pleasant tension and fine-grained thread of mineral grip that carries through to the finish
The Chenin vines are a blend of 25-year-old vines
Everything is organic and biodynamic
Pigalle 2021 is a pure Malbec from the Bordeaux hinterland — the grape’s ancestral home before Argentinian sunshine made it globally famous
red-berried and lightly tannic
Cinsault 2020 Clearance with a pleasant tension andCharlotte and Aurlien Houillon farm nine hectares in a single block at Faucon, in the Vaucluse, where the vines share their ground with woodland and moorland. Aurlien is Emmanuel Houillon's brother, and like him learned the trade with Pierre Overnoy at Pupillin, which tells you most of what you need to know about the approach here: nothing added, no cultured yeast, no fining, no filtration and no sulphur. Horses work the rows, and even the labels are