2018 Château Yvonne La Folie

Last night, my husband made his famous eggplant parmigiana with two long Asian eggplants. He is known for this dish. My mother, who lives in Hawaii says that it is the best eggplant parmigiana that she has ever had, so when she came to visit us in May, 2019, she requested that my husband make this dish. He did not disappoint.
The beauty of this dish is that he makes all of the eggplant and we get to freeze what he doesn't turn into the evening meal. We were able to freeze 4 more servings for future use.

We had this 2018 Château Yvonne La Folie, a Cabernet Franc from the Loire to pair with the eggplant parmigiana. The color of the wine was very dark, inky purple in the glass. The body was of medium to medium heavy extraction. For a wine that is less than 2 years old, it had a very silky finish with very little tannins and balanced acidity. It paired very well with the tomato based meal.
This is the second of Château Yvonne's offerings that we have tasted. In December 2019, I blogged about 2018 Chateau Yvonne Saumur-Champigny L’ile Quatre Sous

La Folie comes from plots in the village of Champigny itself with vines ranging from 15-50 years in age, grown on clay and limestone soils. In 2007, Matthieu Vallée took over from Yvonne and Jean-François Lamunière who resurrected the ancient vineyard in 1997 with the help of Françoise Foucault. Matthieu Vallée decided to keep the name Chateau Yvonne in hommage to the incredible work done by the previous owners.

The grapes are hand harvested and fermented with native yeasts in 50 hl concrete vats. The fermentation lasts for 4 weeks then the wine is aged for 12 months in half 38 hl foudre and half in 4-5 year old barriques. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal sulfur.
References:
1. Coeur Wine Co., Château Yvonne.
2. The McCarus Beverage Company, Château Yvonne.