Thomas Batardiere Amor Fati 2022

Name: Thomas Batardiere Amor Fati 2022
Brand: Thomas Batardiere
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THOMAS BATARDIERE AMOR FATI 2021
Maine-et-Loire / Loire // France
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A light and lively carbonic Grolleau Noir. Plenty of berries!

Grolleau Noir grapes from a 0.33 hectare parcel planted in the 1960s on a mix of clay, blue schist, quartz, and eroded schist in Rablay-sur-Layon. The vineyard is named Case Neuve and Thomas Batardiere owns 1 of the vineyards 2 parcels. This is a very small production wine, with extremely small yields at only 25 hl per hectare. The grapes are hand harvested in whole bunches and put into vats with their stems on. They undergo 4 weeks of maceration without intervention at all, no pump-over, no punchdown, before it is fermented and aged in stainless steel tanks. No filtration or fining.

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About the Producer

Thomas and Marie-Lise Batardiere make pure and precise low-intervention wines in Anjou, France.

Thomas Batardière studied anthropology and got bitten by the wine bug in 2008 while working as a cinematographer. Switching career path he worked as a sommelier first but being drawn to winemaking he decided to join Château Yvonne (Saumur, Anjou Blanc). Voluble, passionate and not afraid of a challenge he quickly became Mathieu Vallée’s right-hand man whilst studying viticulture in Beaune.

He finally struck out on his own in Rablay-sur-Layon (Anjou Noir) in 2012, buying a couple of hectares of his beloved chenin but without any equipment or cellar. He built the latter as well as his house right next door to Richard Leroy with whom he has become close.

Applying biodynamic principles from the get-go, Thomas continued to expand to reach 4ha (currently 3.3ha in production), just enough he believes to be independent and express himself. Most of his vines are south of the Layon river, in Rablay, on sandy and stony soils with clay over schist. Chenin and cabernet franc are grown here as well as grolleau, a grape well-suited to the area. His best parcels of chenin, including the Clos des Cocus planted in 1968, are found up the stunning coteau of Faye d’Anjou (north of the Layon) clinging into the schist bedrock.

He aims at making zero-sulphur wines, rarely racking and working reductively on the lees.

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