Les Doyennes Amphora 2023 Producer|La Cuverie

Les Doyennes Amphora 2023 Producer|La CuverieFrom the prized 80 year old vines of the domaine, this is an incredibly scarce micro cuve variant on Les Doyennes, and the product of a single 180 litre clay amphora. As such, the wine particularly stands out from the others in the currently release where they are tense and angular, this wine possesses a completely different character, the sharper notes filed down, soft edged and diffused. Its fascinating to see how this small vessel has taken the

'Les Thorins' is a single 1

From seventy five year old vines planted with a rare kind of pink-skinned Coda di Volpe some 500 metres above sea level

softer structure

Incredibly light on its feet

This is Falanghina with a mixture of the grapes direct-pressed (like a regular white) and some left to macerate on the skins (a la orange) leaving a golden glow and just a modest mouthful of grippy tannins

pasture (where Iberico pigs roam free) and other crops

this spends one year in steel tank only

the grapes were harvested much later into September of 2023 than is typical here

this pours a wonderful shade of purple

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