Cabernet Franc from Saumur, Loire valley
Vintage: 2021
Volume:750ml
 
🐞Organic Wine🐞
🐝Natural Wine🐝
 
"100% Cabernet Franc. Les Arboises is a subsection of the limestone-dominant Brézé hill. This is Guiberteau’s top red from a renowned red terroir. The monopole parcel was planted in 1957 on a very rocky, chalky site, and produces super-graceful and mineral expressions of Saumur. The fruit was fully destemmed and naturally fermented in concrete before resting for 18 months in a mixture of new, one, two, and three-year-old barrels. Guiberteau ages this cuvée for longer than his other reds, both in barrel and bottle, feeling this site’s more angular tannins require extra refinement.
As good as Les Chapaudaises is, this takes it to a whole new level: it’s emblematic of the style, structure, and resonant depth of this producer’s boundary-pushing reds.