2022 Domaine Les Grandes Vignes Le P'tit Vaillant, Loire, Vin de France Paolucci The fruit is still purple

The fruit is still purple leaning and the ethereal notes of the past still pop out on palate entry but a weightier middle kicks in almost immediately with notes of sage

The wines are fermented with indigenous yeasts and kept on their lees for 9-10 months and we resist stirring the lees

The wine is also aged in concrete--hence the very literal name--for 6-7 months and bottled without fining

concentrated juicy peach

and with zero addition of sulfur

2022 Domaine Les Grandes Vignes Le P'tit Vaillant, Loire, Vin de France Paolucci The fruit is still purple60% Groslot and 40% Cabernet Franc grown on clay soil. Grapes were hand harvested, fermented with wild yeasts and aged in underground ceramic vats. Bottled unfined, unfiltered with no SO2. Since the XVII century, located in the village of Thouarce in Anjou, the Vaillant family has passed on farmland from generations to generations. For the last ten years, sister and brothers have cultivated the estate using the biodynamic principles. The goal is to