Denis et Didier Berthollier, Mondeuse Les Granges Tissot, 2022 041125LoireOffer and it will hold

and it will hold

A high-altitude white from an under-the-radar corner of northern Portugal better known for sparkling wine

almost Bordeaux-blanc feel underneath the bright Meyer lemon

A library Pomerol from a legendary vintage

and he keeps this one entirely in stainless steel so nothing softens the edges

Denis et Didier Berthollier, Mondeuse Les Granges Tissot, 2022 041125LoireOffer and it will holdRoughly two thousand bottles a year of Savoie's great indigenous red, given more care than Alpine wine usually gets. Mondeuse is late ripening and deeply colored, with dark fruit and a real crack of black pepper if you like a cool vintage northern Rhone, this is the Alpine equivalent. The Granges Tissot parcels sit behind the old family barns named for the Tissots, the brothers' forebears who started farming here in 1850, and Denis and Didier