Pure Roussanne aged partly in terracotta jar and partly in a single three-year-old 228-liter barrel, this micro-cuvée from vines planted in 2014 offers intense minerality beneath its overlay of exotic almond-inflected apricot fruit, with a lip-smackingly pulpy texture and a vivid overall sense of purity. One feels the influence of the Châteaubourg vineyard’s limestone soils in the wine’s directness of line and mineral elegance.
Pure Roussanne aged partly in terracotta jar and partly in a single three-year-old 228-liter barrel, this micro-cuvée from vines planted in 2014 offers intense minerality beneath its overlay of exotic almond-inflected apricot fruit, with a lip-smackingly pulpy texture and a vivid overall sense of purity. One feels the influence of the Châteaubourg vineyard’s limestone soils in the wine’s directness of line and mineral elegance.