2020 Lecointre Anjou Rouge 'Avant-Garde'

100% Cabernet France from two parcels in Champ-sur-Layon totaling nearly ten and a half acres Certified organic, biodynamic farming; schist soils; fermented with native yeasts, aged in stainless steel; bottled unfined/unfiltered with minimal added So2; 12% alcohol; 350 cases made.  The oldest archive pointing to the Lecointre family being vignerons in Anjou—a journal entry listing sales of wine in barrel—dates from 1779, but Lecointres have been farming grapes and making wine in the Loire Valley since at least the 16th century.  Cyrille is the 9th generation to farm grapes at the domaine.