Romain Guiberteau's Chenin Blanc expresses terroir with crystalline clarity
each annual release assembled to be its own thing rather than a carbon copy of the last
it shows their dedication to small-batch
the 2007 is in its drinking window: dried plum and red cherry
the site's pebbly limestone
Les Bottes Rouges, Cotes du Jura Savagnin "Face B", 2023 SO110421_Bordeaux_Sale Romain Guiberteau's Chenin Blanc expressesLes Bottes Rouges is the Jura project of Jean Baptiste Menigoz, a one time schoolteacher turned organic biodynamic vigneron who apprenticed with Jura legend Stephane Tissot. "Face B" is his Cotes du Jura Savagnin, made in the fresh, topped up (ouille) style rather than the oxidative one, which means it shows the grape's bright, mineral, almost saline side rather than the nutty sherry like character. It's a great gateway into Savagnin for the curious,