Roches Neuves (Thierry Germain), Saumur-Champigny Franc de Pied, 2016 skurnik burgundy DI offer elevated by meticulous farming and

elevated by meticulous farming and old-vine fruit

perfect for gatherings or stocking the bar with a regional twist

and bottled unfiltered from a single barrel

The village bottling anchors Domaine Duroché's portfolio

who took over his family's Fleurie estate in 1989

Roches Neuves (Thierry Germain), Saumur-Champigny Franc de Pied, 2016 skurnik burgundy DI offer elevated by meticulous farming andThierry Germain has turned Roches Neuves into one of France's reference points for biodynamic winegrowing, and Franc de Pied is among his most distinctive wines: Cabernet Franc planted on its own ungrafted roots, without the usual American rootstock that has protected European vines since phylloxera. Working that way is risky and rare, but Germain believes it produces wines of deeper, more direct terroir expression. Farmed biodynamically in Saumur