July & August Tasting Diaries: Part 1
No.64 | What's In My Glass
While summer doesn’t officially end in the Northern Hemisphere until September 21, it is hard not to feel a shift in energy and focus when the calendar flips to September. I was fortunate to spend the better part of my summer, 8 weeks in total, in the Loire Valley. While I certainly enjoyed a bit of downtime and vacances, I also kept myself busy attending a variety of tasting events and visiting domaines throughout the region while I was there.
For the next two newsletters, I will share a bit of a recap of the domaines that I visited and some of my insights and experiences, and then I will provide some more in-depth coverage over the coming weeks through separate articles and/or videos. So, with this newsletter, we head to Touraine: Bourgueil/St-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil and Chinon.
Bourgueil/St-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil
Established in 2014, Anne Rouxelin set out to chart a new course as a vigneronne with the creation of her estate Domaine Ansodelles. Anne organically farms 4.6 …