Quarts de Gastines 2021 Rosé at the table or the

at the table or the morning after

riddled by hand

fermented and bottled before the fermentation is finished

in amphora and concrete

and unpretentious

Quarts de Gastines 2021 Rosé at the table or theQuarts de Gastines is one of Pierre Mnard's dry Chenin parcels in Faye d'Anjou, in the old heart of the Coteaux du Layon. The vines are a study in patience: gnarled, goblet trained old Chenin with no trellis to lean on, plus a younger patch, digging into grey green schist streaked with phtanite. Pierre trained as an agricultural engineer and learned in cellars from Chteau Latour to Tokaj before coming home in 2013 to farm this by hand, treating the