Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 CRV10 While Fernet-Branca dominates the category

While Fernet-Branca dominates the category

Scott Schultz built Jolie-Laide around exactly this kind of varietal curiosity

To be served before the meal

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it rewards exploration now while building potential for 10-12 years ahead

Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 CRV10 While Fernet-Branca dominates the categoryQuentin Cailleau farms organically in Anjou, working schist slopes in the Hyrome Valley with the hand harvesting and patience the appellation's Chenin Blanc demands. The Patience cuvee is his calling card: spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, slow cool ferments, and nine months of lees aging underground and in sandstone amphorae. The result is dense yet weightless, with the saline, chiseled finish that Anjou Chenin does better than anywhere