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Grolleau: Transition
and Movement in a Bottle

I was halfway through Yoga with Adriene's 30-day challenge and feeling completely unmotivated.

I started doing yoga with Adriene on and off since 2013, the 30 day challenge since 2021. I knew why I started all those years ago, but I wasn't sure why I kept doing it.

I'm way beyond the beginner stage of yoga, and it dawned on me: I am a creature of routine. For me to break out of this, I have to stop making decisions based on the idea that things have to be done the way they have always been done — or I will never move forward.

The truth is, I haven't gotten it right these last few years. (whoof)

I went from one silly job to the next, feeling overworked and unfulfilled.

But on March 20, 2026, I finally took my life back.

I quit my job.

I started living for me, and I could feel something changing in my soul. Something had shifted for the first time.

I took stock. I thought about the things I wanted for myself, the places I saw myself going, and the career that felt like it was truly mine.

I started thinking about low-intervention wines, the people behind them, and how much I wanted this to be my career.

I knew I didn't want to keep working for the same people, doing the same things. But nothing was coming to me yet, and I am watching my savings disappear while I figure it out.

So halfway through this boring yoga session, I started thinking: it has been a while since I had a glass of wine.

Suddenly, I got motivated.

I started creating a little evening routine. (Here I go again.)

I started thinking about what wine could make my evening.

A little snack while my husband took a nap.

Would it be a pét-nat? A funky white? Or a well-rounded Grolleau?

What was going to give me all the feels and the whole enchilada? (I just aged myself with that '90s slang.)

As my husband took his evening nap — side eye — I decided on the Grolleau.

If I'm being honest, my body was craving steak and broccoli rabe.

My body chose the Grolleau.

Also, because my husband was taking a nap, the committee voted.

The committee decided he was making dinner.

Yummy.

The Wine

Boisairault

Anjou, Loire Valley, France

Baptiste Cousin. 4.5 hectares. Owned by Baptiste's father Olivier Cousin (yes, that Olivier Cousin — the cult natural winemaker).

Certified organic (AB-Ecocert and Nature & Progrès), with biodynamic practices. The vineyards are plowed with horses across limestone clay and schist soils.

Hand harvested. Spontaneous fermentation. Carbonic maceration.

No filtration. No fining. No sulfur or other additions at any point. Drink Zero: manipulated wines, zero sulfur.

Whole cluster fermentation for 14 days, followed by six months of élevage in large old barrels.

Unfined  ·  Unfiltered  ·  Zero SO₂ Added

My Take

The wine is delicious.

At first pop, there is light acidity, minerality, ripe fruit, and berries. It is light-medium bodied and round through the middle palate, with an effervescent finish.

After an hour, peppery notes appear with a beautiful roundness on the finish.

It paired perfectly with porterhouse, broccoli rabe, and John Wick 4.

Try it and let me know what you think.

Every bottle has a journey.
Every journey tells a wine story.

Until my next bottle, Ta Ta.

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