Les Nuits Fresches 2022 Hannes und Claudiu a savoury herbal thread and

a savoury herbal thread and the freshness that keeps southern reds honest

a creature that feeds on vine leaves and has ended up on a label

and a quarter of ancient vines over a hundred years old

A wine that rewards patience

red-fruited with a peppery lift and tannins that barely register at all

Les Nuits Fresches 2022 Hannes und Claudiu a savoury herbal thread andMarc Houtin and Alexandre Forge took over Les Vignes du Fresche in 2022, at La Pommeraye on the Mauges side of the Loire. Houtin also runs La Grange aux Belles; Forge is an oenologist of some twenty years who keeps a wine bar in Angers besides. Their twenty four hectares sit in a single unbroken parcel on a schist plateau above the river, farmed organically for more than two decades, with hedgerows and cover crops doing the work chemicals do