2019 Le Briseau, Patapon Rouge VDF, Loire, France 2024 Holiday Collectible • Elevation 860ft

• Elevation 860ft

Portugieser Alte Reben

VITICULTURE: All grapes are harvested by hand and all fermentations start spontaneously with indigenous yeasts

and make up about 50% of the final blend

"Les Nosroyes" is French for walnuts

2019 Le Briseau, Patapon Rouge VDF, Loire, France 2024 Holiday Collectible • Elevation 860ft100% Pineau d'Aunis. Maceration and proportions of whole cluster vs destemming vary each vintage depending on the sanitary state of the grapes. The grapes are foot trodden before going into maceration vats. A semi carbonic maceration lasts one to three weeks. The grapes are then pressed and age about 10 months in vat until bottling. Besides pressing the grapes, no interventions are done until bottling. A small amount of S02, two grams per hectoliter,