100% Côt

Loire, France

Vibrant, bright and fruity wine with excellent texture, freshness and balance. Floral (violets) on the nose, soft juicy raspberry fruit on the palate with good tension from the acidity. Utterly delicious!

Produced on the hillsides of La Pépière village. 1.5 ha of 20-year-old vines. The estate was established by Marc Ollivier in 1984, Remi Branger joined him in 2007, followed by Gwénaëlle Croix in 2012. In 2006, they stopped using herbicides, opting instead to plough and lightly rake the soil. In 2007, they took their organic work a step further by treating vines only with copper, sulphur and several plant-based preparations. They harvest nettles, comfrey and horsetail along the Maine River and use these plants by steeping them, fermenting them or in the form of decoctions. Biodynamic preparations are used to reinforce the vines against disease and help the micro-biological life of the soils.