Cabernet Franc, 2024

Loire red from a family who learned their trade pouring natural wine in a Tours bar. Fresh rather than heavy, with a stony edge from slate soils.

Cabernet Franc from two old-vine parcels in Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay, in the Anjou corner of the Loire. Redcurrant and raspberry sit over a dark, stony streak from the slate soils. Fine tannins and a long finish follow. Long ageing in old barrels rounds it out without dulling the fruit. Made by the Mosse family, who started out running a wine bar in Tours and now farm organically with their sons Sylvestre and Joseph in charge.