Grapes: Malbec
Region: Cahors, France
Vintage: 2021
Viticulture: Biodynamic
Soils: Limestone
Vinification: 80-90% destemmed then fermented for 20-30 days in open concrete vates
Aging: 50hl concrete tanks for 7 months
Fining or Filtering: Light filtration
Sulfur: None added
Notes from the Importer: After twenty-five years as a sommelier, wine wholesaler and the owner of a Parisian wine bar, forty-eight-year-old Cahors native, Laurent Marre, found himself in a hospital bed. Unexpected life-threatening circumstances and four months confined to a hospital can change anyone’s perspective. After he was released, Laurent and his wife, Nathalie, started to plan a return to Laurent’s familial homeland. Since 2018, they’ve been raising horses (Nathalie’s métier, along with plowing the vineyards) and farming eight biodynamic hectares of vines on their 30-hectare plot surrounded by forest on one of Cahors’ geologically diverse and high-altitude limestone plateaus.
