Mark Angéli – Biodynamie, Peter Parker and Pruning

Mark Angéli came to New York once in his life. He was a teenager, a Fantastic Four and Spiderman fan, and he went right up to the corporate offices of Marvel Comics (without an appointment), demanded to see publisher Stan Lee and spent a couple of hours meeting and talking with the staff.

Today, Mark is a passionate biodynamiste, perhaps more extreme than Nicolas Joly. Mark is a vineyard fanatic, who lives to prune, plough and harvest. Who truly makes his wine in the vines. Biodynamie is not simply philosophy or extrapolation for him, but is a harmonious daily practice at the Domaine de la Sansonnière.

Mark’s wine and Mark’s work are serious but he has not lost that curious and comical twinkle – he fears the world is fatally threatened by modernism and global technology – at the same time, he remains the kid who barged into Marvel Comics.

The Rosé d’un Jour is his 2004 Anjou Rosé. It is perhaps the best known Rosé from the Loire Valley but was declined the AOC a few years ago for being atypical. The wine is made from botrysized Gamay, botrysized Cabernet Franc and it used to have some Grolleau. Angéli no longer wants to wrangle with AOC bureaucrats over whether it is typical or not, so he has declassified it to a table wine named with a play on words.

La Lune is one of the great parcels of Bonnezeaux which would normally be vinified as a sweet wine. Mark feels there is just so much sweet wine a normal person can drink and argues that a great terroir will be equally or better expressed by a dry vinification.

We started importing these wines knowing they would be very difficult to sell. We import them because we love to drink them. We used to have to go to France to get a bottle. Now, we store them in Edison, New Jersey and have a trucker ship them. You can help us out

- Joe Dressner 5-22-2005 3:46 am


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