2023 Bachelet-Monnot Maranges 1er Cru “La Fussière”, Burgundy, FranceABOUT THIS WINE A more serious offering than the villages Maranges, with a complex tightly wound fruit set, a fine spine of tannin and this lovely salty dark fruited finish. An excellent cuvee that hails from seven7 different parcels in La Fussiere, vinified separately and in a variety of vessels, with the percentage of whole bunch tailored to each plot. Vines are aged between 10 and 85 years old, energy coming from the former, complexity from the

making them the best candidates to faithfully communicate a special terroir or vineyard site

especially regarding their soils

in the absence of topping it with young wine

with smaller amounts of Chardonnay

on the gravelly slopes of a 45-acre single-vineyard

and summer in a conifer forest

Morgeot is a white wine of volume

where he first worked under the wings of Napa's superstar Andy Erickson for a while

English Hill Vineyard grows at the southwest edge of Sebastopol Hills

and dried herbs

close to the border between the provinces of Treviso and Pordenone

High density vineyard blocks of 5