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La Grange aux Belles VDF ‘Fragile’ 2021
La Grange aux Belles VDF ‘Fragile’ 2021
La Grange aux Belles VDF ‘Fragile’ 2021
La Grange aux Belles VDF ‘Fragile’ 2021

La Grange aux Belles VDF ‘Fragile’ 2021

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Variety: Chenin Blanc

Where: Loire Valley, France

Producer: La Grange aux Belles

Who: Marc Houtin and Julien Bresteau

  • Cork Dork

    100% Chenin Blanc. During harvest, the team usually visits each parcel 2-3 times (sometimes up to 5 times) to pick grapes at different levels of maturity. For Fragile, they choose grapes from select parcels with younger vines. The grapes are sorted by in the vineyard and then again back at the winery, where they select only the most golden grapes. Aged in used barrels for 12 months. Not fined or filtered.

  • The Winery

    La Grange aux Belles has grown to a 22 hectare estate, with organic vineyards spread over 5 communes in the AOC Coteaux de l'Aubance. Marc Houtin created the domaine back in 2004.

    In 2007, Marc was joined by Julien Bresteau. It was then that the pair began to convert the vineyards to organic. They worked tirelessly over the years to improve soil health, and also replanted many vines within the vineyards. They slowly purchased more plots, in and around Anjou. A few years ago, Gérald Peau (Jesse) joined them. And in 2022, Julien moved on to another project – and so now it is Marc, Jesse, and a few full time employees.

    They farm many varieties – all organic. The subsoils are mainly made of schist, with some silt and clay on top. Water stress is essential, and there is little rain here, the vines work hard! They use herbal infusions such as nettles, horsetail and buckthorn and put low doses of compost on the soil at the end of winter to relaunch the microbial activity. The grapes are vinified with their natural yeasts and no additives are used, except for a small amount of SO2 before bottling (sometimes no SO2 at all).

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