2022 Thomas Batardiere Grolleau 'Amor Fati', Loire, France

Certified Biodynamic. 100% Grolleau. From a 0.33 ha parcel planted in the 1960s. The vineyard is named ‘Case Neuve,’ and Batardière owns one of the vineyard’s two parcels. Yields are only 25 hl/ ha. The parcel sits on a riverbed between the Britannic and Parisian continental plates, which yields a wide array of soils: clay, blue schist, quartz, degraded and eroded schist. Semi-carbonic fermentation in stainless steel with spontaneous fermentation; no additions. Aged in stainless steel and bottled in Sept after harvest with no fining/filtered and 1-2g of SO2 at bottling.