2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos du Chateau des Ducs, Volnay Premier Cru, France Les Vignes de Paradis and 9% wheat

and 9% wheat

and floral with a touch of tropical fruit

after our mainstay Gewürztraminer farmer lost her crop to steady rains that pummeled the valley in late-September

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2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos du Chateau des Ducs, Volnay Premier Cru, France Les Vignes de Paradis and 9% wheatfrom the domaines walled monopole in the heart of Volnay on very shallow, stony limestone with thin brown clay; farmed biodynamically and harvested by hand. Fruit is rigorously sorted with a measured share of whole clusters when stems are perfectly ripe, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in open vats with gentle extraction. levage runs 1418 months in older 228 L pices (no new oak) with minimal racking; SO is added only after malolactic, and