2024/25 Domaine du Bel-Air Bourgueil "Jour de Soif", Loire Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE 100% Cabernet Franc grown on clay limestone soils. Hand harvested, the grapes are sorted and de stemmed and fermented using native yeasts in stainless steel tanks. Only the free run juice is used. Aged 6 8 months in stainless steel tanks and bottled un filtered. The Gauthiers make a fresher, early drinking wine every year that is meant to be drunk during the first year of release. Always delicious, displaying dark fruit, soft tannins,

they are at a minimum very good and some of them are excellent

Despite this minimal intervention

From the lieu-dit "La Moutte

realises 90% of the work is in the vineyard

Mayor of Bordeaux

“A maximum of 20 to 30 percent [of barrel-fermented wine] is a good complement for my blends

ranging plantings from 1962 till 1982 and based on granite from the Paardeberg

as with all our wines

and grilled herbs in this complex

From the producer: "Our vineyards benefit from the proximity to the Atlantic coast and the embrace of the Miño river

The wide mouth provides a larger surface area for the wine to come into contact with air

Malolactic fermentation completed