Domaine Tardieux-Gal Touraine Pineau d'Aunis Le Temps des Aunis 2023 ROSSCELLAR Le Cran is grower Raphael

Le Cran is grower Raphael Bereche's single-vintage statement: a 50/50 blend of old-vine Pinot Noir and Chardonnay from two plots in his Premier Cru home village of Ludes on the Montagne de Reims

Champagne for people who want texture and cut at the same time

but dialed back

10 months in French oak and then cement

Creamy and expansive on the palate

Domaine Tardieux-Gal Touraine Pineau d'Aunis Le Temps des Aunis 2023 ROSSCELLAR Le Cran is grower RaphaelPineau d'Aunis nearly disappeared. It was once planted all over the Loire, then got ripped out in favor of grapes that ripened more reliably and sold more easily, and today only a handful of growers still bother. Domaine Tardieux Gal, in the village of Thesee in the Touraine, is one of them, farming organically on clay limestone and vinifying with native yeasts, a short ten day maceration and six months in steel, so nothing gets between you and the