Les états D'Anne - 2019
Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Cinsault & Grenache
Made in the Loire with grapes from Languedoc...
Languedoc-Roussillon, France
Cinsault & Grenache
Made in the Loire with grapes from Languedoc, France.
This is Anne's light-bodied, chillable red, the favorite of the bunch. The poppy red fruit is bright and lifted, with smoky-spicy depth, soft tannins and tongue-tingling acid on the finish that makes it feel almost effervescent.
Anne Paillet worked in finance in Paris, until a bad car accident forced her to reexamine her life, at which point she ditched corporate life to make wine. She assists with the end of the growing season, then harvests the grapes (on the early side) and guides the fermentations, before trucking the wine back up to the Loire in bulk containers to finish Touraine style. Which is why her wines tends to be more similar to Loire wines than the Languedoc. The early pick avoids heaviness and high alcohol, and the Loire treatment leads to lighter, more terroir-expressive wines.