Foulards Rouges 2024 Glaneurs

Les Foulards Rouges is a long-standing favorite of Chambers Street Wines for a good reason: Jean-François Nicq is producing some of the best, most drinkable and consistent natural wines in France. - Pascaline Lepeltier

Glaneurs comes from a single vineyard of Grenache that was planted in 1970. The vines are planted on a steep hillside of decomposed granite, and yields are particularly low here (usually 15hl/ht or less). Half of the grapes are de-stemmed, and the other half see whole cluster carbonic maceration. After this, the free fun and press juices are blended, and the wine is aged for 6 months in neutral barrels. This is a young wine, showing more predictable tannic structure, albeit refined and integrated. The wine maintains brightness and has a pleasant level of acidity, as do all of Jean-François' cuvées.