Côt—the Loire's brooding, dark-fruited answer to Cabernet Franc—thrives in Touraine's clay-silica soils, especially when the vines are ancient. At La Grange Tiphaine, old vines rooted in limestone-enriched earth produce a wine of surprising complexity: wild berries, violet, and licorice dance with savory spice and mineral chalk. Biodynamically farmed and native-yeast fermented, this wine reveals layers with time in glass—blackberry structure gives way to graphite minerality and a long, refined finish.