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BRETON00501
Domaine Breton Bourgueil Perrieres 2001
BRETON00501
Domaine Breton Bourgueil Perrieres 2001

Catherine et Pierre Breton Bourgueil ‘Les Perrières’ 2001

€62.11

Geek alert! Aged bottles of Domaine Breton’s top wine ‘Les Perrieres’, couple cases of 2001 and 2002 left in the cellar. The 2002 shows intensely cloudy and lees-y in the glass and is texturally the most vibrant and free-floating of the two. Needs some air before it yields its subtly enticing nose. The 2001 is a touch more austere on the palate, but explodes with hauntingly sylvan Cab Frac aromas right off the bat. Take your pick.

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Organically farmed 50 year-old Cabernet Franc vines on clay-silex over clay-limestone soils, situated on along a south-facing slope. Very low yields (20hl/ha), hand-harvest, manual destemming, 3-week natural fermentation in open-topped wooden vats. 12-24 month elevage in wooden barrels, some of which are new. Bottled unfiltered with minimal added sulphites.

Domaine Breton

Catherine and Pierre Breton: natural wine pioneers, masters of Bourgueil Cabernet Franc and close friends of Chabrol. Domaine Breton is a century-old family operation that has been bottling wines under their own name since 1985. In the late eighties they started their conversion to first organic and later biodynamic farming, and already in the early nineties they had fully adopted the “nothing added-nothing taken away” approach to winemaking. These bon-vivants are beloved throughout the wine world and their domaine is one of our favourite pit-stops during our wine trips.

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