Éric Chevalier Val de Loire Pinot Noir
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This 2023 Pinot Noir from Val de Loire in France's Loire Valley is made with gentle handling. The grapes are slowly crushed by pneumatic press, and the juice moves underground into glass-lined cuves or stainless steel tanks. Fermentation is natural, using indigenous yeasts, and the wine ages on its lees for 8 to 10 months, with the lees stirred regularly.
Éric Chevalier farms twenty-five hectares sustainably near Saint-Philbert de Grandlieu, southwest of Nantes. After ten years sourcing fruit for a large négociant in the Touraine, he returned home in 2005 and took over the family's Domaine de l'Aujardière the next year. He is the fourth generation to farm it, and he now bottles more of the family's production himself. Much of his land is planted to Melon de Bourgogne for Muscadet Côtes de Grand Lieu, while the rest, including Pinot Noir, goes to Val de Loire wines grown on granite, sand and silt.