Pauline Lair’s avant-garde urban winery in Angers takes its name from the length of the great Loire River, which flows 1,006km from its source in the Ardèche to the Atlantic Ocean. Here in the heart of the city she crafts tiny amounts of natural wines that reflect the unique terroirs of the Loire Valley. Pauline works only with partner growers who are farming organically in emblematic regions such as Côtes-du-Forez, Touraine, Anjou and the Pays Nantais. They are beautiful, natural and honest wines with real vitality.
Pauline Lair makes Indigo from a single parcel of Gamay in the Côtes du Forez, where the soils are granitic sands over volcanic bedrock. This is a wild and untrammeled Gamay skillfully rendered by Pauline.