Pierre Menard Anjou Cabernet Franc Orion Alpha 2023 NO20230809 So once a year we

So once a year we offer it at the sharpest price we can manage

This wine opens with a delightful nose of gently crushed mulberries and rounds out with wild strawberries

Brune et Blonde draws Syrah from both of the great slopes that give the appellation its name -- the darker

From the producer: As our whisky ages and mellows

From vines planted in the 1930s

Pierre Menard Anjou Cabernet Franc Orion Alpha 2023 NO20230809 So once a year wePierre Menard is one of Anjou's most thoughtful young naturalists, farming his small parcels of Cabernet Franc and Chenin with a light hand and bottling without compromise. Orion Alpha is one of his Cabernet Franc cuves gently extracted, low in sulfur, and built around lift rather than weight. A great example of how Anjou Cabernet Franc can be both serious and ridiculously easy to drink.