M. & S. Bouchet Cabernet Franc Le Sylphe 2013

Soulful, brimming with fruit, palate-hugging, not reticent, on point, again balanced. There’s less of an emphasis on the tobacco and aggressively tannic or ‘angry’ aspects of Cabernet Franc and more an emphasis on the joyful side of the grape, enhanced by the natural concentration to be found in the estate’s biodynamically farmed 60+ year-old vines.

From 1990, Matthieu and Sylvanie Bouchet took over the 6 ha family winery located at the place called La Salle. Matthieu’s father, Francois Bouchet, was the French pioneer in biodynamics and his winery was converted into a biodynamic certified domaine in 1962. Matthieu and Sylvanie chose to follow in his father’s footsteps and continue to farm the same. Clay-limestone soils. Wines are aged in oak barrels in a tuffeau cellar (this freestonewas also used to build Les Chateaux de la Loire).