Closeries des MOUSSIS
Cuvée Moineaux

Laurence Alias and Pascale Choime, an engineer and an oenologist respectively, tend to their half-hectare vineyard in Margaux (Cantenac) with the care of a vegetable garden. It features six Bordeaux grape varieties (including Petit Verdot, Carménère, and Malbec), some of which are over a century old. Biodynamic farming, plowing with horses, nothing in the cellar but the grapes and (very) little sulfur, aging in 400-liter barrels—everything is done to stay as close as possible to the most delicate and crisp fruit.

Moineaux is an airy and subtly fruity cuvée (raspberry juice), with a tender and slender structure, in the spirit of the Loire Valley. Deemed too atypical to qualify for the Margaux appellation, it is consequently labeled as Vin de France.