2020 Michel Gahier, Arbois Blanc Melon "La Fauquette", Jura, France Domaine la Soufrandière framed by subtle phenolics and

framed by subtle phenolics and finished Extra Brut to keep the architecture crisp

Light filtration before bottling on July 16

- Roasted in earthen conical oven for 4-8 days

add the botanicals to macerate for 24-hours and distill a third time

2020 Michel Gahier, Arbois Blanc Melon "La Fauquette", Jura, France Domaine la Soufrandière framed by subtle phenolics andThis cuve, again from a single vineyard in Montigny, is aged for one year in large foudres at which point it is then racked into smaller barrel for an additional three years sous voile. Called Chardonnay, the vines are of the local variety known as Melon Queue Rouge, a white grape the skin color of which bleeds towards red as it approaches the stem.