Quarts de Gastines 2021

Name: Quarts de Gastines 2021
Brand: Domaine Pierre Menard
SKU: pierremenard-quartsdegastines-2021-13.5%-750ml
Price: 85.00 SGD
Availability: InStock

$85.00

Loire Valley, France · White wine

Quarts de Gastines is one of Pierre Ménard's dry Chenin parcels in Faye d'Anjou, in the old heart of the Coteaux du Layon. The vines are a study in patience: gnarled, goblet-trained old Chenin with no trellis to lean on, plus a younger patch, digging into grey-green schist streaked with phtanite. Pierre trained as an agricultural engineer and learned in cellars from Château Latour to Tokaj before coming home in 2013 to farm this by hand, treating the vines with plant infusions rather than chemistry. The 2021 is taut and stony, all quince, apple skin, a squeeze of lime, and the flinty mineral line that Anjou schist runs through everything. Give it air; there is real substance beneath the restraint.

Pairing Suggestions

Chenin that takes itself seriously, and earns the right to.
Its mineral cut suits clean broths: fish maw soup, or salted vegetable duck soup.
Or scallops seared hard, finished with brown butter.

About Domaine Pierre Menard

Pierre Menard makes some of the most impressive Chenin Blanc wines in Faye d'Anjou in the Loire Valley of France. He grew up in a winemaking family and his parents own several hectares of land within the Côteaux du Layon, where they farm Chenin Blanc and Sauvignon Blanc grapes to sell to local cooperatives. Some of these vines are hundred-over years old. Within these plots of land, Pierre has isolated a few plots and started to create his own wines.

Pierre masterful creates several types of Chenin Blanc from each plot, in which he showcases the differences in the ages of the vines, soil types and location of the plots.
The grapes are harvested manually and the winemaking is low intervention, no new oak, barrels range from 1-3 years, and a slow cold fermentation that often lasts until the spring adds layers of complexity and depth.

Even though Pierre Menard has only been making wine for a few years, his wines are highly sought after and we are grateful to be working together!

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