Loïc Pasquet, owner and winemaker of the top Bordeaux winery Liber Pater has presented what he calls an "affordable" new red wine. The "Denarius" is supposed to cost around 500 euros net per bottle. Like the first Liber Pater wine, which costs 30,000 euros per bottle, it comes from ungrafted vines of partly forgotten, autochtonous varieties. Liber Pater works in the vineyard according to cultivation methods from the mid-19th century. It is a good price to get to know wine from the time before the phylloxera catastrophe, Loïc Pasquet said.
With Denarius, he wants to compete with the Grand Cru Classés of his native Médoc. He is currently having the wines from his estate classified as "Vin de France". Liber Pater does not belong to any AOC.
(uka)