Mosse Cabernet Franc VDF 2022 750ml

This wine is produced within the Anjou appellation but is intentionally declassified as VDF.

A blend of two parcels: 40 ares of 30 year old vines from Le Clos de l’Ommeau and 40 ares of 50 year old vines from Les Bonnes Blanches.

The grapes are destemmed then poured into large wooden vats. Fermentation, maceration and punchdowns are done at the same time. The wines are then racked to large oak barrels for a spontaneous malolactic fermentation. After a racking of the gross less, the wines age in old Burgundian barrels.

Agnès and René Mosse, along with their sons Joseph and Sylvestre, live and work in the village of St-Lambert-du-Lattay, a village in the Coteaux-du-Layon area of Anjou. Layon is a small tributary to the Loire that lazily digs its way through well exposed and drained hills of schist and sandstone.

They adopted organic viticulture techniques from the start, plowing between and under the rows, and use biodynamic preparations to treat the vines and soil. In their area of "Anjou Noir" (Black Anjou), so called because of the dark color of the soils of slate and volcanic rocks), the soils are shallow, with subsoils of schist and sandstone, and varying amounts of clay on the surface.

With all the efforts put into vineyard work, it is equally important to them to vinify in a natural fashion, and they are particularly attentive to minimizing manipulations and the use of sulfur. All the wines are barrel fermented and aged. The whites usually go through their malolactic fermentation.The barrels are renewed as needed, but are always older as to not impart oak flavors.

-Louis Dressner Selections