2020 Domaine Belargus Anjou Quarts, Loire, France Andrew Will The wine is then racked

The wine is then racked into small barrels (only a minor percentage of which are new) to complete the malolactic fermentation and then are left to age in a small

stainless steel and was just bottled in January

Aging: 11 months on the lees in neutral 500L French foudres

Both direct pressing (destemmed and whole cluster grapes) and the saignée method is used

1 hectares

2020 Domaine Belargus Anjou Quarts, Loire, France Andrew Will The wine is then rackedQuarts is a south facing lieu dit of Quarts de Chaume which before the French Revolution was in the hands of the sieureurs de Haute Guerche. They had tithed a quarter of this parcels wines to the Abbey of Ronceray in Angers for generations, a tradition now enshrined in the name of the appellation Quarts de Chaume Grand Cru. This cuve, however, is not a Grand Cru wine since it is made in a dry style which entitles it to carry the more generic Anjou