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Location: France, Loire, Coteaux du Layon
Winemaker: Agnès, René, Sylvestre and Joseph Mosse
Grapes: Cabernet Franc
Soil: Clay, gravel, schist
From the Importer Louis/Dressner: 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. Layon is a small tributary to the Loire that lazily digs its way through well exposed and drained hills of schist and sandstone. Its micro-climate allows for a long hang-time, and when the mornings are foggy in the fall, with no rain, botrytis develops easily on the Chenin grapes.
Before becoming vignerons, the Mosse had owned a wine-bar/retail shop hybrid in Tours. They credit the great vignerons they met there, among them Jo Pithon and François Chidaine, as the impetus to become winemakers. The couple studied viticulture and oenology at the agricultural lycée in Amboise where two of their teachers were Thierry Puzelat (Clos du Tue-Boeuf) and Christian Chaussard (Domaine le Briseau).
After graduating, the Mosse spent two years working in Côte-de Beaune before buying their estate in St-Lambert in 1999. They currently work 17 hectares of vines, most of them planted with Chenin Blanc (9HA), and Cabernet Franc (3 HA), the rest planted with Gamay, Chardonnay, Grolleau Gris and Noir.
2020 Update:
René is technically retired, Agnès still works. Syvlestre and Joseph both came on board in the early 2010's and have been making the wines since 2014. The only major changes in the production of the historic estate wines have been to rip out most of the Cabernet Sauvignon to focus exclusively on Cabernet Franc and the decision in 2016 to pass the entirety of the Anjou production into Vin de France. Otherwise, the brothers have been having fun creating new cuvées from their own estate fruit as well as with purchased grapes through the family's négociant license 4B2F.
Location: France, Loire, Coteaux du Layon
Winemaker: Agnès, René, Sylvestre and Joseph Mosse
Grapes: Cabernet Franc
Soil: Clay, gravel, schist
From the Importer Louis/Dressner: 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. Layon is a small tributary to the Loire that lazily digs its way through well exposed and drained hills of schist and sandstone. Its micro-climate allows for a long hang-time, and when the mornings are foggy in the fall, with no rain, botrytis develops easily on the Chenin grapes.
Before becoming vignerons, the Mosse had owned a wine-bar/retail shop hybrid in Tours. They credit the great vignerons they met there, among them Jo Pithon and François Chidaine, as the impetus to become winemakers. The couple studied viticulture and oenology at the agricultural lycée in Amboise where two of their teachers were Thierry Puzelat (Clos du Tue-Boeuf) and Christian Chaussard (Domaine le Briseau).
After graduating, the Mosse spent two years working in Côte-de Beaune before buying their estate in St-Lambert in 1999. They currently work 17 hectares of vines, most of them planted with Chenin Blanc (9HA), and Cabernet Franc (3 HA), the rest planted with Gamay, Chardonnay, Grolleau Gris and Noir.
2020 Update:
René is technically retired, Agnès still works. Syvlestre and Joseph both came on board in the early 2010's and have been making the wines since 2014. The only major changes in the production of the historic estate wines have been to rip out most of the Cabernet Sauvignon to focus exclusively on Cabernet Franc and the decision in 2016 to pass the entirety of the Anjou production into Vin de France. Otherwise, the brothers have been having fun creating new cuvées from their own estate fruit as well as with purchased grapes through the family's négociant license 4B2F.