In Vinepair: Cabernets Best Bang for Your Buck: “Mary Taylor’s Anjou Rouge, a blend of Cabernet Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon from Anjou, comes to mind when I think about Cabernet Sauvignon. The thing I love about wines under the Mary Taylor label, besides their focus on biodiversity, organic farming practices, and minimal-intervention winemaking, is that their wines don’t see oak, so you get fruit-forward, bright wines that, once decanted, are delicious young. The Anjou Rouge is an excellent example of this with a fruity and floral nose and beautiful dark berry, soil, and tobacco notes.”

—Sarah Myers, service manager, Middle Child Clubhouse, Philadelphia

90 Points – John Gilman, View From The Cellar (full review below)

“Pascal Biotteau’s vines fall right at the split between terroirs, as half lie on slate and the other half on a mix of clay and limestone. The blend of the two gives this Anjou Rouge a seriously complex base of soil tones. The wine is a blend of eighty percent cabernet franc and twenty percent cabernet sauvignon, which are fermented with indigenous yeasts and the wine is eventually bottled unfiltered. The 2019 version is outstanding aromatically, with the bouquet wafting from the glass in a refined blend of dark berries, black cherries, a touch of tree bark, a beautiful base of soil, cigar smoke and just a hint of violet in the upper register. On the palate the wine is bright, full-bodied, focused and quite youthful, with a fine core of fruit, firm, chewy tannins, lovely balance and grip and a long, promising finish. This is quite closed and structured out of the blocks, but all it needs is cellaring time to soften up and start to drink with generosity. It will be a very good bottle in due course, but patience will be required. 2029-2050+. 90” – John Gilman, View From The Cellar, May-June 2021 #93

90 Points – John Szabo, Wine Align

“Mary Taylor is a sort of micro-negociant combing the less well-beaten paths of Europe looking for simple but authentic regional expressions. “Our simple White Label series is here to serve as your guide through the rural backroads and winding country lanes of the European wine route”, reads the website; each wine in the series features the name of the grower, and is also priced accessibly I should add. The Anjou rouge is made from 80% cabernet franc with 20% cabernet sauvignon and displays that classic, cool Loire leafiness and fresh, tart strawberry-raspberry fruit, perfumed and inviting, fresh violet-inflected. The palate is likewise sheer pleasure, juicy, crunchy, vibrant, infinitely drinkable, with light, silky tannins. I love the succulent acids and the vaguely saline taste that keeps you coming back for more. Enjoy with a chill over the near term – textbook Loire Cabernet. Tasted August 2022.”