La Petite Soeur Le Gâts 2021
Anjou, Loire Valley, France
Sauvignon blanc
ABV: 13.2%
Another stunner, this time a concentrated and playfully textured Sauvignon Blanc. Dry and angular with just a touch of tropical fruit and compellingly moorish minerality: this is a serious dinner wine and more stunning work from Adrien De Mello. Again he’s taken a stalwart of the Loire and created something new and yet totally direct and familiar.
Originally from Brittany, Adrien fell into wine making in Quebec where he worked for a number of years before returning to France to work in the Southern Rhone Valley. During this time he also lived and made wine in America and South Africa and when he heard of an organically farmed estate in Anjou that was downsizing and selling a section of the property he leapt at the chance to begin his own domaine and be a little closer to his home region.
Today, Adrien farms just over three hectares of Loire varieties outside the village of St Lambert du Lattay in Anjou, one the most widely revered regions of the Loire and makes a delicious range of seriously pure, detailed wines. The terroir here is largely schist-based which and the wines have a pleasing notion of minerality as a result.
Anjou, Loire Valley, France
Sauvignon blanc
ABV: 13.2%
Another stunner, this time a concentrated and playfully textured Sauvignon Blanc. Dry and angular with just a touch of tropical fruit and compellingly moorish minerality: this is a serious dinner wine and more stunning work from Adrien De Mello. Again he’s taken a stalwart of the Loire and created something new and yet totally direct and familiar.
Originally from Brittany, Adrien fell into wine making in Quebec where he worked for a number of years before returning to France to work in the Southern Rhone Valley. During this time he also lived and made wine in America and South Africa and when he heard of an organically farmed estate in Anjou that was downsizing and selling a section of the property he leapt at the chance to begin his own domaine and be a little closer to his home region.
Today, Adrien farms just over three hectares of Loire varieties outside the village of St Lambert du Lattay in Anjou, one the most widely revered regions of the Loire and makes a delicious range of seriously pure, detailed wines. The terroir here is largely schist-based which and the wines have a pleasing notion of minerality as a result.
Anjou, Loire Valley, France
Sauvignon blanc
ABV: 13.2%
Another stunner, this time a concentrated and playfully textured Sauvignon Blanc. Dry and angular with just a touch of tropical fruit and compellingly moorish minerality: this is a serious dinner wine and more stunning work from Adrien De Mello. Again he’s taken a stalwart of the Loire and created something new and yet totally direct and familiar.
Originally from Brittany, Adrien fell into wine making in Quebec where he worked for a number of years before returning to France to work in the Southern Rhone Valley. During this time he also lived and made wine in America and South Africa and when he heard of an organically farmed estate in Anjou that was downsizing and selling a section of the property he leapt at the chance to begin his own domaine and be a little closer to his home region.
Today, Adrien farms just over three hectares of Loire varieties outside the village of St Lambert du Lattay in Anjou, one the most widely revered regions of the Loire and makes a delicious range of seriously pure, detailed wines. The terroir here is largely schist-based which and the wines have a pleasing notion of minerality as a result.