Dom. Filliatreau Chateau Fouquet Saumur 2019
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Naturally the soil and subsoil of the vineyards are highly calcareous. This type of soil lends the Cabernet Franc grapes juicy flavors and good acidity.
The vines are of considerable age and yields are kept low. The winery has been practicing organic viticulture since 1998, and also has a single plot vineyard (that goes into making Chateau Fouquet) that is being converted to biodynamic viticulture. The wine is vinified in stainless steel and bottled unfiltered.
Paul Filliatreau, who twenty years ago did much to put the AOC Saumur-Champigny on the map of great wines, has resolved to go back to "older ways" of tending vines and found the principles of bio-dynamie well-suited to this purpose.