Anne Collard Vin de France SHI FU MI 2021

	Seductive natural wine from the Rhône
	From biodynamically grown grapes
	Delicate and juicy; wonderfully slightly chilled

Description

What a fantastic natural wine from Anne Collard, also owner of Mourgues du Grès in Costières de Nîmes. For several years she has had her own project in the Rhône, in line with her love for the Grenache grape. This delicious Vin de France is the convincing calling card.

Anne makes the wine mainly from Grenache, with a little bit of Syrah and Mourvèdre. She works her vineyards according to organic and biodynamic principles – just like in Nîmes. The relatively cool microclimate (thanks to morning mist and the cool mistral wind) ensures grapes with sufficient freshness.



Anne harvests them by hand. A short fermentation follows in the cellar. After pressing, the wine matures for ten months in concrete vats. Only minimal sulfite is used for bottling.

The Shi Fu Mi is a wonderfully pure, juicy and light-footed natural wine. It smells subtly of raspberry, cherry and freshly ground black pepper and has a refined, juicy and slightly spicy taste. Preferably drink it slightly chilled, for example with charcuterie, quiche or ratatouille.

And now about the special name: Shi fu mi is Japanese for one, two, three and refers to the countdown for the game rock paper scissors, also called chifoumi in French. The stone is also called caillou, the paper also called feuille, which means leaf. The stone represents the cobblestones (cailloux) in the vineyard, the leaf for the Grenache grape and finally the scissors for vineyard management - see also the beautiful label. And so rock paper and scissors make this great pleasure wine.