2020 Domaine de la Touraize, Arbois 'Zeste de Savagnin', Jura, France Australia Tinc Set Baudili (Xarell /

Tinc Set Baudili (Xarell / Parellada)

Almost every other straight rye whiskey you can buy today is barely legal

Steacy Ranch was one of the first vineyards planted on St

this CCOF organic vineyard was first consulted for by progressive viticulturalist Steve Mathiasson

more clay-forward parcels for its sec bottling (their flintier silex soils would render the dry wine too aggressively austere)

2020 Domaine de la Touraize, Arbois 'Zeste de Savagnin', Jura, France Australia Tinc Set Baudili (Xarell /A J began his Zeste project by happy accident; a batch of 2018 Chardonnay had elevated volatile acidity in barrel, so he added some skins upon which a younger wine had just finished fermenting, and the wine corrected itself. He loved the results, and began producing a Savagnin which employs skin contact but which A J adamantly resists classifying as an orange wine. As with the Ploussard La Cabane, the Savagnin for this bottling is destemmed by hand