Imported by Free Run, Seattle WA.
Franc de pied Gamay, Côt and Gascon. Vines from ’68. Organic/BIO. Label by Heidi Kuka, Julien’s wife.
Magenta. Buckwheat and upholstery webbing and the palate is enormously black fruited, as if these ungrafted vines could produce the effect of a bursting cherry tomato in the mouth. The poverty of these shallow subsoils give the wine its grippy mineral streak. Now – 2020.