Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine in the hill rising above

in the hill rising above the town of Ranzo Borgo at 230 meters above sea level

Aperture's version blends in 20% Semillon and finishes fermentation slowly in French oak and concrete

Bordeaux varieties in the most exposed parts of his vineyard

He founded Verget in 1990 in Sologny on a radical premise for the time: buy grapes

this is an evening designed for discovery and celebration

Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine in the hill rising aboveQuentin Cailleau farms organically in Anjou, working schist slopes in the Hyrome Valley with the hand harvesting and patience the appellation's Chenin Blanc demands. The Patience cuvee is his calling card: spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, slow cool ferments, and nine months of lees aging underground and in sandstone amphorae. The result is dense yet weightless, with the saline, chiseled finish that Anjou Chenin does better than anywhere