Sylvie Augereau Anjou Rouge Les Manquants 2022 NO WINE SEARCHER the fourth generation running this

the fourth generation running this family domaine

which is not what this corner of the Loire usually delivers — all held together by a saline

which means Brut Imperial is assembled from a hundred-plus base wines drawn from across Champagne

Kaferberg is to Gruner Veltliner roughly what Heiligenstein is to Riesling: the site everyone in the Kamptal points to

terracotta amphorae

Sylvie Augereau Anjou Rouge Les Manquants 2022 NO WINE SEARCHER the fourth generation running thisThe French don't have Burning Man. They have La Dive Bouteille, the natural wine gathering that turns a Loire cave into happy pandemonium every winter, and Sylvie Augereau is its driving force. She also, as it happens, makes wine: 1. 5 hectares of old vines overlooking the Loire, worked by hand and horse, no machines, minimal sulfur, some cuvees with none. "Les Manquants" is Cabernet Franc from vines up to a century old, macerated three weeks and aged