Domaine Mosse - Bisou, Anjou, Loire, France (2023)

TASTING NOTES

Le Bisou" (the smooch) is a light, juicy, chill-able red! Domaine Mosse are renowned for their dynamite chenin blancs, but their playful reds should not be overlooked. Fresh, herbaceous, crunchy and dry with notes of roses and strawberries with just a little gamey funk. 

Agnès and René Mosse, along with their sons Joseph and Sylvestre, live and work in the village of St-Lambert-du-Lattay, a village in the Coteaux-du-Layon area of Anjou. They adopted organic viticulture techniques from the start, plowing between and under the rows, and use biodynamic preparations to treat the vines and soil. In their area of "Anjou Noir" (Black Anjou, so called because of the dark colour of the soils of slate and volcanic rocks), the soils are shallow, with subsoils of schist and sandstone, and varying amounts of clay on the surface. 

The vines of Domaine Mosse have been farmed organically since 1999. 

In the cellar the Mosse's use only indigenous yeasts for their ferments which all take place in older barrels or foudres. Most of their wines (including whites) go through MLF and are always bottled unfined and unfiltered with extremely low doses of sulphur.