Les Bois Perdus 'Aphrodite' Ardeche Rouge 2022 750ml 2016 and rosés from this year

and rosés from this year show the kind of fresh

blanketed in volcanic rock from an eruption that lasted six years in the 1730s

and Napa Chardonnay from this vintage carries exactly the concentration and acidity critics expected

and striking

Les Bois Perdus 'Aphrodite' Ardeche Rouge 2022 750ml 2016 and rosés from this yearFRANCE : ARDCHE : AUBIGNAS BIODYNAMIC : Syrah, Grenache Noir MED BODIED, SOUR CHERRY, RED FRUIT, VIOLET, SPICE, NO OAK Les Bois Perdus is Lna Perdu and Alexis Robin, two former film industry workers who traded their Paris careers for three biodynamic hectares in the Ardche the wild, gorge cut department east of the Rhne where natural wine producers have quietly been doing serious work for a decade. The name is a bilingual pun on their surnames: Robin