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The work of Pierre de Benoist, nephew of Aubert de Villaine, with Aligote is truly captivating and a benchmark for the grape. Bouzeron is the only village in Burgundy that preserves the appellation of origin and its best limestone slopes exclusively for this variety. Domaine de Villaine's Aligote receives the same care as the estate's finest Chardonnays....
Corton whites cannot carry the name of the specific vineyards on the label, as is the case with the red grand cru wines of the hill next to the word Corton. This wine comes from three different parts of the hill within the Corton Les Bressandes, Corton Chaumes and Corton Renardes vineyards. The wine was spontaneously fermented in barriques, demi-muids and...
Tournebride, like all Gaudry wines, is made from observation and emotion. Tournebride has no classic winemaking recipe and the wine itself each year shows the producer what to do. It is a blend of different regions of the appellation of origin on different soils, each adding multiple layers to the wine. Precision of expression and tensions, with fruit and...
Vincent Gaudry doesn’t readily offer answers about his wines, perhaps because he prefers to observe and let each vintage guide the vineyard’s expression. In his top Sancerre wines, such as Pour Vous and A mi-Chemin, time and patience are essential tools, along with the unique characteristics of each terroir from which they originate. Pour Vous ages for a...
Elegant and introverted aromatically, it has elements of the character of Muscatella, which anyway constitutes 70% of the blend. Ripe fruit, bergamot and ripe lemon, with citrus blossom and a vegetal quality reminiscent of the green part of the bud before it opens. Wet earth and earthiness intensify the layering of the aromas. The palate is more spicy...
Such a special wine could only have an equally special name. The name Metagitnion refers to the second month of the Attic calendar (roughly late July to late August). Its almost orange colour is the result of slow oxidative ageing in old barrels without the protection offered by sulphites at any stage of the process. Dry, with aromas of honey and candied...
An old Roditis vineyard, 49 years old, from those wonderful cups that one finds scattered on the slopes of Aegialia. The combination of age, non-irrigation and altitude gives excellent raw material, with concentrated grapes and high natural acidity. Clay-limestone soils limit yields and enhance the structure and freshness of the wine. Fermentation takes...
Jasse Côtes Catalanes from Domaine Gauby is an orange wine made from Muscat, with skin-contact maceration that decisively influences both the color and the structure of the wine. More precisely, it is a blend of Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains and Muscat of Alexandria from biodynamic vineyards, crafted with a zero-intervention winemaking approach. An...
The vines are scattered throughout the commune of St-Aubin, on the western slopes of the region and the fruit for 'La Princée' is harvested from many different places. The vines are planted between 1985 and 2000 and are cultivated using organic methods. The wine is matured in 300 and 600lt barrels for a year, followed by 6-12 months in bottle before being...
Another Olivier Lamy "energy bomb" coming from such a steep vineyard where everything is done by hand. The stumps were planted in 1964 and it is essentially the slope of St-Aubin bordering Puligny-Montrachet and has a south-southwest exposure. The soils are on a limestone substrate and give tremendous levels of energy and concentration to the Chardonnay....
