Loir-et-Cher (Loire)
The following day and a half I toured again several growers and domaines, some being located on the Cher valley side,
some on the edge of Sologne and the first place I visited
was a parcel where Jeremy Quastana and a few people including his brother Jean where picking Pinot Noir. Jeremy Quastana himself had zero grapes in his parcels because of the catastrophic weather conditions this year, so here he was picking on a friends' vineyard and the grapes would be vinified by his brother Jean who is also joining the fray of artisan winemaking.
These friends who own this parcel don't make wine themselves, for now at least, they just sell the grapes. They grow organic of course and I spotted this intact mushroom between the rows (I've heard it's edible but I never tried), this is a Wolf-fart Puffball, known in French as vesse de loup.
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