{"title":"Nicolas Reau","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"79\" data-end=\"217\"\u003eNicolas’s path to wine wasn’t linear—he first trained as a jazz pianist before trading scales for secateurs and diving into viticulture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"472\"\u003eAfter meeting Sylvie Augereau (founder of La Dive Bouteille), he was drawn into the world of natural wine, inspired by figures like Marcel Lapierre. This led him toward organic and biodynamic farming, and a minimal-intervention approach in the cellar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"639\"\u003eTaking over a 28-hectare estate in Anjou, he made the radical decision to retain just 5 hectares of the best parcels, later adding a small amount of new plantings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"844\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eToday, fermentations are wild, nothing is added or taken away, and sulphur is used sparingly at bottling only. The wines are vibrant, energetic and full of life—Anjou in its purest, most expressive form.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"2022-nicolas-reau-attention-chenin-mechant","title":"2022 Nicolas Reau 'Attention Chenin Mechant' Chenin Blanc","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlace: Anjou - Loire Valley, France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVariety: Chenin Blanc\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarming: Organic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicolas was a jazz and blues pianist until he was twenty-two at which age he swapped scales for secateurs. He studied winemaking and viticulture at Montreuil then supplemented those studies with more at Bordeaux. He now farms 5.5ha of cabernet franc and chenin blanc at his estate, Clos de Treilles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is glacial chenin blanc fermented in stainless steel and raised in old oak for a year, with only a small dose of sulphur at bottling. It’s slightly hazy as it’s neither fined nor filtered, but drinks as though it ran through the San Pellegrino aquifer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Principal Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40435755286583,"sku":"SK-03886","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0102\/9675\/4231\/files\/9BC84688-8218-4D60-9FCD-41C516355F32.jpg?v=1719436650"},{"product_id":"2021-nicolas-reau-pompois-cabernet-franc","title":"2021 Nicolas Reau 'Pompois'","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlace: Anjou - Loire Valley, France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVariety: Cabernet Franc\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarming: Organic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicolas was a jazz and blues pianist until he was twenty-two at which age he swapped scales for secateurs. He studied winemaking and viticulture at Montreuil then supplemented those studies with more at Bordeaux. He now farms 5.5ha of cabernet franc, chenin blanc and grolleau at his estate, Clos de Treilles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eImmensely elegant and filigreed cabernet franc from one of the masters of the grape. Forest fruits are framed by  a cool, iodine minerality and propelled by herbaceous inflections in a quintessential Loire cab franc of smack-bang medium-bodied proportion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Principal Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40435755319351,"sku":"SK-03912","price":80.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0102\/9675\/4231\/files\/B281D9C7-2FC1-47FA-85CA-400C28BD59C7.jpg?v=1720394829"},{"product_id":"2021-nicolas-reau-lenfant-terrible-anjou-rouge","title":"2021 Nicolas Reau 'L'enfant Terrible'","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlace: Anjou - Loire Valley, France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVariety: Cabernet Franc\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarming: Organic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicolas was a jazz and blues pianist until he was twenty-two at which age he swapped scales for secateurs. He studied winemaking and viticulture at Montreuil then supplemented those studies with more at Bordeaux. He now farms 5.5ha of cabernet franc, chenin blanc and grolleau at his estate, Clos de Treilles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e100-year-old vines(!) are aged in old large wood for 18 months then bottled without sulphur(!) in Reau’s téte de cuvée l’Enfant Terrible. It’s trite to say, but this is undeniably Burgundian in proportion—so elegant, fine and composed. One of the finest cabernet francs you will ever drink.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Principal Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40439998545975,"sku":"SK-03970","price":130.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0102\/9675\/4231\/files\/5BCDA55E-AA5A-4ECD-AAA7-DD81FB0D7BD3.jpg?v=1722891758"},{"product_id":"2021-nicolas-reau-enlevement-demande-anjou-rouge","title":"2021 Nicolas Reau 'Enlevement Demande'","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlace: Anjou - Loire Valley, FRA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVariety: Cabernet Franc\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarming: Biodynamic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicolas was a jazz and blues pianist until he was 22 at which age he swamped keys for seccateurs.He studied winemaking and viticulture at Montreuil and supplemented these studies with more at Bordeaux. He bought this vineyard in 2002 and in 2007 he founded his own négociant business, buying grapes from other growers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is vital and vivacious Cabernet Franc, a vivid expression enlivened by the smell and taste of wild flowers and fresh red fruit. No sulphur was added at any time for this cuvee.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Principal Wines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40439998578743,"sku":"SK-03969","price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0102\/9675\/4231\/files\/D2965F01-1C13-4932-AE01-1ADF82591341.jpg?v=1720073710"}],"url":"https:\/\/ditc.wine\/collections\/nicolas-reau.oembed","provider":"Diggin' In The Cellars","version":"1.0","type":"link"}