Mortier, A Bout de Souffle 2018 750ml

Personality: Varietal notes of dark fruit, pepper, and violets mingle with deeper earthy notes coming from the old vines and long aging.

Vineyard: Old vines (planted in 1974 and 1987) on gravely mix of limestone and silex

Making of: Grapes are hand-harvested, crushed and macerated for a month. As the natural fermentation was quite slow, the brothers decided to let the wine take its time, and the wine spent 18 months old oak barrels.

Winemaker's Note: This wine was born out of “lazy natural yeast”, as Fabien explains – since the fermentation still wasn’t finished after a months of maceration, the brothers decided to put in in a barrel for long time and let it work its way.