{"title":"Clos des Breteches","description":"\u003cp\u003eClos des Brétèches went from unknown to hard to find in just a few vintages. It's a tiny Anjou estate making dense, salty, vertical Chenin Blanc from the volcanic rock of Anjou Noir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMélanie Grenouilleau and Romain Nicolas founded the domaine in 2021, starting with the 1.2-hectare Clos des Brétèches in Grand Bonnezeaux, which they took on under the guidance of Mark Angeli. Both came with serious training. Mélanie worked with Patrick Baudouin and Emmanuel Ogereau and at La Sansonnière alongside Mark and Martial Angeli. Romain worked at Domaine Richou and Terra Vita Vinum. They now farm about 2.6 hectares organically, mostly on spilite and rhyolite, the volcanic soils that give these wines their length and salinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe winemaking is simple and careful: hand harvest, a gentle pressing, fermentation in barrel with native yeasts, about a year on the lees, and bottling unfined and unfiltered with little or no sulfur. The cuvées are parcel bottlings, including Les Bélouines, Les Jauges, Les Pélioches and Bois Renault. Each reads the same grape and the same rocks a little differently, and quantities are very small.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"clos-des-breteches-les-belouines-2024-750ml","title":"Clos des Breteches, Les Belouines, 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eChenin Blanc from a single plot of 33-year-old vines on volcanic rock, made by two people, in quantities that barely leave France. Clos des Brétèches is only a few years old — Mélanie Grenouilleau and Romain Nicolas founded it in 2021 — and it is already one of the most sought-after names in Anjou. Mélanie came to wine after a career teaching PE, apprenticing with Patrick Baudouin, Emmanuel Ogereau and Mark Angeli before starting the estate; Romain spent a decade working in Anjou cellars. Les Belouines is planted on spilite and rhyolite, the silica-rich volcanic rock that defines Anjou Noir and gives these wines their length and salinity. Everything is hand-picked, pressed in a manual vertical press, aged a year on lees in barrel, and bottled with no fining, filtration or additives. Dense and vertical, with the purity these two have very quickly become known for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corkhoarder [TEI] [CORK]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46184137162809,"sku":"NYC-TEI] [CORK-`CH24CDB637`-070926-4","price":114.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Clos-des-Breteches-Les-Belouines-2024-White-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1783798573"},{"product_id":"clos-des-breteches-les-pelioches-2024-750ml","title":"Clos des Breteches, Les Pelioches, 2024","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe richest, most generous Chenin in a lineup that is already hard to get. Les Pélioches is a single 1.4-hectare plot of roughly 40-year-old Chenin Blanc grown on spilite, the volcanic rock that defines Anjou Noir, and it's the most gourmand cuvée in the Clos des Brétèches range. Mélanie Grenouilleau and Romain Nicolas started the estate in 2021 with 1.2 hectares taken over from Domaine Deboutbertin, under the guidance of Mark Angeli, and even now work only 2.6 hectares in total — which tells you how little of this exists anywhere. The farming is organic and old-fashioned in the best way: horses instead of tractors, hand harvest, a manual vertical press. The wine spends a year on its lees in barrel and goes into bottle with nothing added and nothing stripped out. Rounder and more open than its siblings, but with the same saline, mineral spine holding it upright.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Corkhoarder [TEI] [CORK]","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46184137195577,"sku":"NYC-TEI] [CORK-`CH24CDG721`-070926-5","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0125\/1518\/0601\/files\/Clos-des-Breteches-Les-Pelioches-2024-White-Wine-Flatiron-Wines-Spirits-New-York.jpg?v=1783798574"}],"url":"https:\/\/nyc.flatiron-wines.com\/collections\/clos-des-breteches.oembed","provider":"Flatiron Wines \u0026 Spirits NYC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}