Philippe Chevarin "Rouge Detour" 2021

Philippe Chevarin "Rouge Detour" 2021Press 4 Red November 2023 Direct Press Selection This is Philippe Chevarins negoce Cabernet Franc from Anjou. Due to a devastating growing year Philippe chose to purchase organic fruit to continue to make wine in years that his harvest were not sufficient to make enough wine from his own fruit, and for this I am thankful! This is organic fruit that is vinified like all his other wines; whole cluster, 7 10 day maceration in fiberglass tank, then

with dried flowers

The result is the de facto tte de cuve - a wine perfect for aging and yet more approachable than the brooding VT

and strawberry with some gamey wildness

San Baltazar GuelavíaPalenque: 3 MezquitesDistiller: Gregorio Mtz

It's a blend of Nerello Mascalese and Nerello Cappuccio with spicy

and production is about 40

The Chenin grapes were harvested after the smoke dissipated and were pressed off skins right away

This wine is pretty bulletproof after two-plus years of oxidative aging

Two days later

Glou-glou but with more complexity

a local red grape not permitted by the AOC

With over two decades of hard work in her vineyards