2021 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Mollières Loire, France Lammidia Castle & Key swaps the

Castle & Key swaps the spicy rye for wheat

VINEYARD: Vignes de Ratier is a sunny terroir in the village of Morogues where the bedrock lies just centimenters below the surface

each one corresponding to a unique soil type: “Sandstein” or sandstone and “Muschelkalk” or limestone

bloody pinot nero takes us back and we love it for that

old-school Catalan underground fermenter lined with tile

2021 Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Mollières Loire, France Lammidia Castle & Key swaps the100% Cabernet Franc. 2020 was the first individual bottling of this particular 1 hectare plot, Mollires, which previously was incorporated into another cuve. Mollires lies in the extreme west of Chinon, at the highest hillside location of any of Baudry's vines. It is a windy, well exposed site with heavy clay and yellow limestone soils. The farming is certified organic. All vineyard work, including harvest, is by hand. The fruit is destemmed without