Rated equal to the Clisson:
Tasted blind. Certified AB organic. 40-year-old vines on a 1.5-ha, south-east-facing plot on the Butte de la Roche, serpentinite subsoil, fairly deep sandy soils. The soils are tilled. Hand-picked, whole-bunch pressing, spontaneous fermentation. 24 months on lees in underground vats.
Lusciously succulent fruit. Almost startling in its reckless extravagance and generosity. Apricots and mango. Grilled peaches, musk melon. The nose is all charming fruit, but it tastes of earth and hot stones and stone-baked bread. So much texture it’s bordering on tannic. Gritty. A fistful of wine that stops short of your chin at the very last moment, and opens wide to offer a peace-offering handful of ripe apricots and honeyed pears. Intensely centred and almost juddering with concentration, the mineral spine of the wine set magnificently within the flesh and richness of the fruit. Defiantly opulent!
