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Nicolas Reau
Nicolas Réau, "Attention Chenin Méchant" 2019
Nicolas Réau, "Attention Chenin Méchant" 2019
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About the wine
100% Chenin Blanc hand-harvested from organically cultivated 18 year-old vines grown in silty clay and limestone soils in the Anjou sub-region of France's Loire Valley. The grapes are directly pressed using a horizontal press into tank where native yeasts kickstart and complete alcoholic fermentation. The wine is finished and aged for 6 months on the lees in neutral oak barrels.
The Producer: Nicolas Reau
Like another of our favorite winemakers (François Grinand of “La Vigne du Perron”), Nicolas Reau found his way to the vineyard through the arc of a music career, one sat in front of a piano. Having pursued the life of a Jazz and Blues pianist until the age of 22, Nicolas Reau, one day in 1994, was able to shift the path of his career to his other passion: wine. He fell for the proverbial grape at the ripe old age of eight years old – his grandfather would give him a sip of red wine every now and then unbeknownst to his grandmother! For a long time he was of the belief that he could never have a life as a winemaker due to the twin conundrum of not being from a family of vignernons nor seeing any financial viability down the vineyard road. Well, in 1994 he came across an advert for a professional degree in viticulture and oenology – the rest, as they say, is history. He took over a Domaine in 1998 in the Anjou in the western Loire Valley and, immediately to ensure quality over quantity, reduced the 28 hectareage of the estate to five. A telling decision, for even though he didn’t know it he was well on his way to becoming a leading figure in natural wine in the Loire. In 2005, he met who would become his wife, the famous natural wine-writer, winegrower, and organizer of the Loire’s famed La Dive Bouteille natural wine fest, Sylvie Augereau. There is a reason these wines – of Reau and Augereau – are so highly sought after these days: they are pure originals, in every sense of the word.
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