La Borde Noire 'Chair Blanche Marnes Noires' 2024 Gifts

La Borde Noire 'Chair Blanche Marnes Noires' 2024 GiftsHigh elevation Macabeu and Grenache Gris (the pink kind!) on calcareous, black shale soils: all the makings of a very interesting Mediterranean white from the southwestern coast of France. These thick skinned grape varieties lend themselves to a fuller bodied white wine, and this one, once given air, has tons of flowers, silty soil notes, and fleshy white fruit. A great replacement for those people in your life who only drink Chardonnay, and a great

with interesting forest floor notes and rose petal

It's given about a year's worth of aging in those barrels

and not ruined by over-ripeness or new oak

his drum set is right next to his steel tanks

with hints of sour cherry and spice

durability

an enologist and his partner Carolina

pleasurable

blended with 2021 ferments of crabapples

sandy hills of the Roero subregion in 2010 as Valfaccenda

These grapes are hand-harvested and whole-cluster fermented in 800-liter wood tanks for about 14 days

This is a barrel-strength whiskey