Domaine Filliatreau, Saumur-Champigny Vieilles Vignes, 2009 Continue Selling OOS After fermentation the spirit is

After fermentation the spirit is pot-distilled to high proof

The result is crystalline and mineral

or channel your inner French grandpa and sip it after dinner

but soft enough to keep it accessible

the estate refuses even copper sulfate in the vineyards

Domaine Filliatreau, Saumur-Champigny Vieilles Vignes, 2009 Continue Selling OOS After fermentation the spirit isFilliatreau's Vieilles Vignes is the cuve that defined modern Saumur Champigny the estate's founder, Paul Filliatreau, reshaped the whole appellation's reputation for Cabernet Franc, and this old vine bottling is the flagship. It comes from mature parcels around the historic hamlet of Chaintres, on shallow soils over the Turonian tuffeau chalk that gives Saumur Champigny its signature freshness and mineral cut. This is the 2009, a famously warm, ripe