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Red Soft, Smooth, Fruity “Le Cousin” Grolleau vieilles vignes, Domaine Cousin-Leduc 2007
Red Soft, Smooth, Fruity “Le Cousin” Grolleau vieilles vignes, Domaine Cousin-Leduc 2007
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“Le Cousin” Grolleau vieilles vignes, Domaine Cousin-Leduc 2007 |
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Situated in Martigné-Briand south of Angers the domaine extends over 12-hectares planted to Gamay, Chardonnay, Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Grolleau and Chenin. The Angevin climate, tempered and regulated by the Atlantic and the Loire river, the preservation of regional organic, natural elements such as micro-flor, the selection of grape varieties and traditional methods of viticulture and vinification is what gives these wines their powerful identity. Olivier Cousin is the wild man of Anjou making utterly natural wines. The label has a picture of a daddy long legs opening a bottle a wine with a corkscrew. Cousin is daddy long legs in French. Grolleau (or Gros Lot), a variety now virtually only encountered in Rosé d’Anjou, is properly the subject of withering scorn from all manner of wine journalists. Its name is derived from an old French word “grolle” meaning the raven, a bird with plumage as black as the grapes of this vine. However, these grapes come from 65 year old vines. and undergo semi carbonic maceration. No added enzymes, sulphites or yeasts (wild yeast ferment). No filtering, no fining. |
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