Les Vieilles Vignes Des Blanderies 2012



Mark Angeli in 1984 decided to settle in the Loire a man from Marseilles, creating his little Domaine Ferme De La Sansonnière in Anjou in the village Thourace. Eight hectares of vineyards as well Breton cows “Le Pois noir”, which produces top quality manure, two hectares of wheat and an orchard of 3000 square meters. Mark uses electricity from solar panels, he is heated by a wood heater, travels on a car with compressed air, and uses a rectified tractor working with sunflower oil, grown by himself. The vines are not plowed, but only buttage (is a cultural operation which consists in bringing back the earth in the form of "butte" at the foot of the plants) is the practice used, while the grass is removed only when strictly necessary. The vines grow without any support so they can enjoy maximum lighting on both sides. The same philosophy is followed in the cellar: only the perfectly berries ripe and healthy are vinified; most of the operations are performed manually and no wine is clarified or filtered, the fermentations are long and takes place either in amphora or in 500l oak barrels.
Today we tasted the old vines from a half hectare called Les Vieilles des Blanderies 
on schist soil ... Half hectare on gobelet vines, 6000 per hectare, 65 years old. Natural fermentation and aging 24 months on 500l barrel with their fine lees... A Chenin with super energy, tension and salty element the minerality was superb the acidity super fresh a bottle can almost hurt to open just because to young considering being already 6/7 years old. 

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