offering depth without weight
Bedell Cabernet Franc shows firm
low-intervention introduction to orange wine
Beautifully balanced between ripe red fruit and earthy minerality
and built to flatter a steak
Bernard Baudry, Chinon Les Grezeaux, 2023 November 2024 Private Cellar Offer offering depth without weightBernard Baudry is Chinon's greatest domaine, now run by Bernard's son Mathieu, and Les Grezeaux comes from the very first plot of vines Bernard bought back in 1975. The soils here are gravelly, just a stone's throw from the cellar, and they give a Cabernet Franc that's the juicier, more mineral of Baudry's middle cuvees. Organic farming, native yeast fermentation, hand harvesting, the whole nine yards. The beauty of Grezeaux is its versatility: chill