Vieilles Vignes Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil AOP 2021/2022 Amirault Organic Wine

Nutritional information per 100 ml

Contains negligible amounts of fat, saturates, protein and salt.

After a little time in contact with air, this wine develops notes of violets and elder alongside its typical sour cherry aromas.

Le Clos des Quarterons

Wonderful wines are made in the small winegrowing commune of Saint Nicolas de Bourgueil on the Loire. Its white wines and refined Crémant de Loire are better known than the region’s reds. These gentle Loire reds, made mainly from Cabernet Franc, impress with their distinctive character. The red wines of the Amirault family are a prime example. The family has cultivated and run the estate with conviction for 180 years.

“Our wines are alive, from earth to sky.” To make living wines, the family has a strong desire to respect the environment. The diversity of soils in the planted vineyards provides the foundation for cultivating them exclusively according to biodynamic guidelines and expressing the character of the sites in the wines’ flavour. The estate’s cellar is particularly interesting. In the 1960s, the father of present cellar master Xavier Amirault bought an old quarry and, together with other winegrowers from the village, converted it into a perfect wine cellar. Its tunnels, several hundred metres long, can even accommodate a tractor, and the wines can mature perfectly at a constant temperature of 13 °C.