Mylene Bru "Le Cowboy" Vin de France Rouge 2023

100% Grenache, velvety and beautiful. Fresh off the boat! Literally. This wine is made exclusively by Mylene Bru for San Antonio wine importers Sans Honneur Wine, and couriered across the Atlantic Ocean via sailboat. No carbon footprint, aside from the delivery truck that brought it to the store.

Coming from a family of winegrowers from Corbières, Mylène wasn't allowed to take the reins from her winemaking father and brothers due to gender discrimination. She nevertheless created her own vineyard on a small estate in Garrigues near the Mediterranean Sea. The Terroir is the ancient sea, white lands from crushed marine skeletons very rich in magnesium. Her passion and vision is all her own. These wines are her ideas. There are so many great wines out there, but the wines from Mylène has something we don't discuss enough in the natural wine community: a perspective. A human hand and heart that tells us a story about their beautiful place on the foothills of the Pyrenees. There's nothing like listening to Mylène tell the story of her wines. It's a love story, through and through.

Mylène's started without any electricity, on a small patch of soft, chalky limestone that was completely untouched and shares no neighbors (and so no pesticide runoff). The vineyards in her small estate are covered in a local herb, 'garrigue,' which impart an unmistakable savory flavor to her elegant, natural wines. She works biodynamically on a mere five hectares, where she grows a litany of different varieties like Tempranillo, Carignan, Cinsault, Syrah, Aubun, Chasselas, amongst others. These grapes are pristine, and Mylène fosters them into incredible wines that are stuff of dreams. Everything has been done by hand and horse for five years. The wines express the grapes as naturally as possible.