Vignoble Musset-Roullier Les Neuf Vingt Anjou-Villages Cabernet Franc 2023

A lively, tangy and wonderfully ripe Cabernet Franc, vinified completely in tank. Violets, baking spices, fresh herbs, lots of summer ripe red fruit. A wonderful spring wine to go with a generous spread of regional goat cheese and rustic pâté. A bit about the name: “Neuf-Vignt” translates as 9/20, a fraction of a harvest. In medieval times, free peasants worked the land for the nobility and paid “rent” with the product of their labors. (This social system is called “metayage.”) The landlord’s share of the crop, of course, was the “best” part of the harvest.

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