Les Capriades "Pet Sec"

Grapes: Chenin Blanc + splash of Cab Franc

Region: Loire, France

Vintage: 2020

Viticulture: Organic

Fining or Filtering: None

Sulfur: Minimal added

Notes from the Importer:  Pascal Potaire – caviste at the dawn of his career – worked for others for much of his winemaking life: for Noëlla Morantin in the Touraine and for Nicolas Renard in Vouvray. He began his own label in the early 2000s, and was joined by his good friend and business partner Moses in 2011.  Obsessed with balance, low alcohol, and high acidity, his mission became to bring the elegance and finesse of great Champagne to the world of naturally fermented sparkling wine.  Happiest in the cellar, Pascal can be found daily monitoring his juice and maintaining his impeccable cellar, the quotidian tasks that make Les Capriades the pinnacle for méthode ancestrale sparkling wines.  Moses, a logistician before he entered the wine world, handles marketing, and is in many ways the public face of this domaine.

Pascal and Moses are located within the Touraine appellation, in the town of Faverolles-sur-Cher.  Designated “négociant vinificateur,” they buy the majority of their grapes, which they harvest themselves from a handful of local organic growers around Faverolles.  The soils here feature silex and clay with limestone subsoil, which of course helps the wines attain their crunchy mineral backbone.