Nicolas Réau Pompois Rouge

Nicolas Réau Pompois Rouge is a single-variety Cabernet Franc red wine made in the Loire Valley, in Thouarsais, in the A.O.C. Anjou (northwest France), by Nicolas Réau.

This wine is the result of a story that began in 1998 when Nicolas Réau took on 28 hectares, which he worked, observed and researched. On this journey, Réau, whose career had so far been focused on jazz music, realised that those who hold onto a lot have a lot to lose, so he sold 23 of the hectares, keeping only the 5 best ones. And Clos de Treilles was born, the winery where Nicolás would make his wines from old vines, over 30 years old, and these would become the country’s best natural wines. In this area, the vineyards are located on shale and slate soils (from the Armorican massif of Brittany) with clay and limestone (from the Paris basin). The clusters grow facing south-southwest, influenced by a temperate climate, with dry winds directly from the Atlantic, with low temperature variation (which sometimes slows down the ripening of the grapes).

Following a manual harvest, Nicolas Réau holds onto the principle of minimum intervention in the winery. With Nicolas Réau Pompois Rouge, this philosophy is maintained with long pre-fermentation macerations (5 weeks), native yeasts, fermentation without temperature control and using cement tanks. Nicolas Réau Pompois Rouge is aged for 12 months in used oak barrels without filtering or clarifying before bottling. No sulphur is added either. In short: the essence of the Loire Valley in a bottle.