Anjou "Pluton"

Pluton is an intra-plot selection from Clos des Mailles. For this cuvée, the vines are on the crest of the hill, where there is a very strong dominance of phtanites over schist. Phtanites are very hard blue rocks generally surrounded by veins of white quartz and are considered a companion rock to schists; moreover, "phtanite" comes from the Greek Phtanô, "I precede" meaning "I precede the schists", just as, in a way, Pluto precedes us outside the cocoon formed by the solar system. This cuvée imposed itself in 2016; vinification in small batches revealed two barrels that followed a very distinct path from the rest of Clos des Mailles, two barrels that proved to come from this part of the plot very rich in phtanites.