Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Aperture's version blends in 20%

Aperture's version blends in 20% Semillon and finishes fermentation slowly in French oak and concrete

From the producer: Domaine Pierre MOREY cultivates several litlle plots in 6 lieux-dits distributed in the heart of the appellation and all around the village

A Pedro Ximénez

Empress 1908 Gin was commissioned for the legendary Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria

It's made with the same care as the grand vin — long vatting

Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Aperture's version blends in 20%Quentin Cailleau farms organically in Anjou, working schist slopes in the Hyrome Valley with the hand harvesting and patience the appellation's Chenin Blanc demands. The Patience cuvee is his calling card: spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, slow cool ferments, and nine months of lees aging underground and in sandstone amphorae. The result is dense yet weightless, with the saline, chiseled finish that Anjou Chenin does better than anywhere