2020 Domaine de la Mariniere Chinon Vieilles Vignes, Loire Valley, France Laphroaig Grenache Gris

Grenache Gris

delivers a very long

Then bottled and held in bottle for years

After soft pressing the wine remains on the lees for 11 months in 25-hl Slavonian oak barrels

VITICULTURE: Organic (EcoCert) and biodynamic farming

2020 Domaine de la Mariniere Chinon Vieilles Vignes, Loire Valley, France Laphroaig Grenache GrisA selection of the estate wine's oldest vines. '20 is a pliant, impressive wine. The Domaine de la Marinire, situated in Panzoult on the eastern edge of Chinon, has been farmed by the Desbourdes family since 1965. The land here was initially used as a true, polycultural farm, raising animals and growing cereal grains in addition to grapes. Renaud Desbourdes returned to help his father in the 1980s, turning the focus to grape growing and winemaking and