Sourced from fifty-year-old bush-trained vines in the south-facing Chapelle des Bois vineyard, made up of decomposed pink granite soils mixed with sand. The vines develop early, and are always susceptible to frost, which hit them hard in early April. Yields were correspondingly very low, but this allowed the fruit to ripen quickly in the short sunny window between the end of the rainy weather and the harvest on 13th September. The wine is beautifully elegant and delicate, with fresh red fruit, smoky spice notes and smooth dark tannins.