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Les Vignes de Babass
VDF · Loire · France
Les Vignes de Babass is the small Anjou project of Sébastien “Babass” Dervieux and Agnès Mallet, based around Beaulieu-sur-Layon and Rochefort-sur-Loire. Sébastien came out of the Les Griottes collective and began bottling under his own name around 2011, farming roughly three to four hectares of Chenin Blanc, Grolleau, Cabernet Franc and Gamay without synthetic products. Harvests are by hand; in the cellar the wines see whole or partial clusters, native yeasts and, as a rule, no added sulphur, fining or filtration. Most bottles carry Vin de France rather than Anjou AOC.
“Cuvées such as Joseph Anne Françoise, La Navine, Groll’n Roll, Roc Cab’ and Nuée Bulleuse are direct, sometimes turbid, and built for the table rather than for scoring.”
The style sits with the freest wing of the new Anjou generation — low-intervention Loire reds and whites that privilege energy and drinkability over polish.
