Mosse Moussamoussettes 2023 750ml

This wine is produced within the Anjou appellation but is intentionally declassified as VDF.

The grapes are direct pressed then the juice partially ferments in stainless steel. It is then bottled with a crown cap. The fermentation continues inside of the bottle and the trapped CO2 creates the wine's natural effervescence. Each bottle is manually disgorged then resealed with a Champagne cork.

Agnès and René Mosse, along with their sons Joseph and Sylvestre, live and work in the village of St-Lambert-du-Lattay, a village in the Coteaux-du-Layon area of Anjou. Layon is a small tributary to the Loire that lazily digs its way through well exposed and drained hills of schist and sandstone.

They adopted organic viticulture techniques from the start, plowing between and under the rows, and use biodynamic preparations to treat the vines and soil. In their area of "Anjou Noir" (Black Anjou), so called because of the dark color of the soils of slate and volcanic rocks), the soils are shallow, with subsoils of schist and sandstone, and varying amounts of clay on the surface.

With all the efforts put into vineyard work, it is equally important to them to vinify in a natural fashion, and they are particularly attentive to minimizing manipulations and the use of sulfur. All the wines are barrel fermented and aged. The whites usually go through their malolactic fermentation.The barrels are renewed as needed, but are always older as to not impart oak flavors.

-Louis Dressner Selections