Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Aperture's version blends in 20%

Aperture's version blends in 20% Semillon and finishes fermentation slowly in French oak and concrete

This is the Reserve

This reposado from Clase Azul is delightfully smooth with a toffee caramel finish

A Pedro Ximénez

in the hill rising above the town of Ranzo Borgo at 230 meters above sea level

Quentin Cailleau Anjou Blanc Patience 2024 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Aperture's version blends in 20%Quentin Cailleau farms organically in Anjou, working schist slopes in the Hyrome Valley with the hand harvesting and patience the appellation's Chenin Blanc demands. The Patience cuvee is his calling card: spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts, slow cool ferments, and nine months of lees aging underground and in sandstone amphorae. The result is dense yet weightless, with the saline, chiseled finish that Anjou Chenin does better than anywhere