2024 Laurent Lebled 'Ca C'est Bon!' Gamay, VDF France
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100% Gamay
From Laurent Lebled produced within the Touraine appellation but is intentionally declassified as VdF! A wood mercahnt for 30+ year found himself unemployed after the 2008 recession had hit hard, and without any other prospects in the wood industry, it looked like he was flat out of luck. Fortunately, two childhood friends would help him find a new path in a direction he never would have expected. 2010 was the first vintage of A la Vôtre, a year when Sébastien Bobinet and Patrick Corbineau generously showed Laurent the ins and outs of viticulture and winemaking. Laurent now fully helms the operation, producing sulfur-free, carbonically macerated whites and reds.
Whole clusters in small crates are placed in concrete tanks, where an extended 30-day carbonic maceration occurs before pressing and racking to. No sulfur is added to this wine at any point. This juicy, gulpable Gamay has plenty of length, thanks to the rocky soils in which the Gamay vines grow, as well as the carefully selected (selection massale) vines planted in 1950 and 1970 that are now at the peak of maturity.