Claire et Florent Bejon "Picrochole," 2020

Grower: Claire et Florent BejonRegion: Saint-Germain-Sur-Vienne, Loire, FranceGrape Varieties: Cabernet FrancViticulture: Practicing OrganicCategory: RedSize: 750ml For the past few years Claire and Florent Bejon have quietly gone about making some of the best wines in all of the Loire from a little cave in the village of Saint-Germain-sur-Vienne. Although the two have been growing grapes and producing wine for the past two decades, until recent years their production was tiny and the wines almost impossible to find. Florent spent the past few decades working travelling around the region helping other vignerons bottle their wines without additives and his work led to him meeting influential figures such as Mark Angeli, who instilled a passion for sustainable agriculture and a search for purity in wine.  Claire and Florent now farm a total of five hectares of vines spread amongst tiny parcels on either bank of the Vienne just to the west of Chinon. The vines are on average fifty years o