Les Quatre Piliers Touraine Première Cuvée Cabernet Franc 2021 corymbia Mixing red and black berries

Mixing red and black berries

A very attractive honeyed nose

My philosophy is to reveal the terroir and not to go against its personality

It's intense and powerful

Les Quatre Piliers Touraine Première Cuvée Cabernet Franc 2021 corymbia Mixing red and black berriesThere is a real finesse to Valentins red wines, as you might expect, given that he has worked with Thierry Pillot and Rafael Coche in Burgundy. The first of two Cabernet franc wines, this larger cuve stems from a parcel of 45 to 50 year old (on average) mass selection vines in the red clay and silex soils of Saint Aignan. Desloges crops at half the permitted yield for this region, and this wine ferments (with 5% bunches) in stainless steel without