Cinsault 2020 Clearance red-berried and lightly tannic

red-berried and lightly tannic

but not so cold you lose the detail

Pigalle 2021 is a pure Malbec from the Bordeaux hinterland — the grape’s ancestral home before Argentinian sunshine made it globally famous

with a pleasant tension and fine-grained thread of mineral grip that carries through to the finish

Cinsault 2020 Clearance red-berried and lightly tannicCharlotte and Aurlien Houillon farm nine hectares in a single block at Faucon, in the Vaucluse, where the vines share their ground with woodland and moorland. Aurlien is Emmanuel Houillon's brother, and like him learned the trade with Pierre Overnoy at Pupillin, which tells you most of what you need to know about the approach here: nothing added, no cultured yeast, no fining, no filtration and no sulphur. Horses work the rows, and even the labels are