Les Nuits Fresches 2022 Hannes und Claudiu red-fruited with a peppery lift

red-fruited with a peppery lift and tannins that barely register at all

due to a loss of 70% of the grapes

and a quarter of ancient vines over a hundred years old

Recerca is Jessica Albero and Laurent Pujol

Les Nuits Fresches 2022 Hannes und Claudiu red-fruited with a peppery liftMarc Houtin and Alexandre Forge took over Les Vignes du Fresche in 2022, at La Pommeraye on the Mauges side of the Loire. Houtin also runs La Grange aux Belles; Forge is an oenologist of some twenty years who keeps a wine bar in Angers besides. Their twenty four hectares sit in a single unbroken parcel on a schist plateau above the river, farmed organically for more than two decades, with hedgerows and cover crops doing the work chemicals do