2024 Haut Bourg Sauvignon Blanc

2024 Haut Bourg Sauvignon BlancIf there's a better Sauvignon Blanc for $14, please bring us a bottle. Haut Bourg is best known for its Muscadet wines, but global warming has widened the area in northern France where the Sauvignon grape can ripen. Gone are the days when these Vin de Pays wines were overly grassy green in their aromatics; now, they're almost delicate, with notes of citrus, lychee, and white flowers, but still backed up with bracing acidity and minerals aplenty. This

Mostly direct press with 25% receiving a short skin maceration

who was regarded as a pioneer of organic farming in Italy

California's most exciting capital "C" variety

This is his Chenin 101

is an equally badass Priorat-maker and another improbably lovely human - frustratingly enough for my dreams

but Piedmont’s chalky soils and cool climate have produced an unusually delicious example right here

If you want a huge wine full of brain-busting mountain fruit

And no one had ever water skied

We love the husband-and-wife winemaking team behind Brick & Mortar

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He chose the city of Cuneo for his location

Time in some French oak gives the wine a polished edge which elevates the wine far beyond "could be from a strange place" territory