2025 Catherine et Pierre Breton, Brut 'La Dilettante', Vouvray, Loire, France Baias e Enseadas Maturating during 7 months in

Maturating during 7 months in the same barrels

225 to 300-meters elevation

The soils are austere: pink granite and quartz

it is bottled just before the next harvest without fining or filtering

bush-pruned parcel of Pais planted in 1893 on granite that produced enough fruit to fill a 500 L barrel

2025 Catherine et Pierre Breton, Brut 'La Dilettante', Vouvray, Loire, France Baias e Enseadas Maturating during 7 months inWith three decades' worth of harvests under her belt with her husband, Pierre, plus her own dabbling with Chenin Blanc since 2002, Catherine Breton is undeniably an authority on biodynamic farming and natural winemaking. Using these methods, she produces this fine sparkling Vouvraybone dry thanks to an extremely low dosage, richly honeyed and complex from refermentation in bottle, and mouthwateringly stony from the flinty soil. Sixteen years after