Les Quatre Piliers Touraine Première Cuvée Cabernet Franc 2021 corymbia The clay content is low

The clay content is low

Its wines are elegant and sophisticated and have a great ageing potential

A very attractive honeyed nose

the Hickinbotham vineyard is carefully managed to produce grapes of outstanding quality

seamlessly infused with oak

Les Quatre Piliers Touraine Première Cuvée Cabernet Franc 2021 corymbia The clay content is lowThere is a real finesse to Valentins red wines, as you might expect, given that he has worked with Thierry Pillot and Rafael Coche in Burgundy. The first of two Cabernet franc wines, this larger cuve stems from a parcel of 45 to 50 year old (on average) mass selection vines in the red clay and silex soils of Saint Aignan. Desloges crops at half the permitted yield for this region, and this wine ferments (with 5% bunches) in stainless steel without