Bourgueil, Loire Valley, France
From their certified organic estate, this is the Gauthier family’s fresh, easy drinking cuvée, crafted specifically to be enjoyed in the first year of its life. A translucent purple-ruby in the glass, Gauthier’s Jour de Soif is Cabernet Franc in its purest, most delicious state. A heady bouquet of cassis fruit complicated by classic Cabernet Franc notes of tobacco, herbs, and perfumed limestone soil. Fresh, invigorating, and endlessly delicious, this is a year ’round wine of immense pleasure that will pair beautifully this winter with bean and meat stews, braises, sausages, and pot roast and carry you all the way to next summer where, with a light chill, it will prove an excellent warm weather rouge with dry rubbed ribs, burgers, grilled summer squashes, marinated flank steak, and barbecued chicken. The must-buy red of this newsletter!
A December 2018 newsletter selection
