2023 Villemade Bovin Rouge 1L, Touraine, France
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100% Gamay
Hervé Villemade has been working his family's vines in Cellettes since taking over from his father in 1995. Today, the estate represents about 22 hectares of organically farmed fruit within the Cheverny and Cour-Cheverny AOC.
When he first over from his parents everything was conventional famred with a lot of chemical intervention, and Hervé was feeling bland and uninspired. Coincidentally, it was about this time that Hervé started developing a very serious allergy to sulfur. He decided to eliminate it from the cellar, but his first sans souffre vinifications quickly led to the conclusion that to make wine this way, you needed the highest quality grapes. So in 2000, Hervé decided to convert the estate to organic viticulture.
Fermented with whole clusters and aged in concrete. Aromas of candied cherry and currants mingle with a nice spicy complexity of carraway and nutmeg.