FRUIT WINE
MELTING POTES
A wine like a dabble of friends, where each grape brings its voice without looking for solo. In the nose, a basket of fresh fruits – white flesh, soft citrus fruit, a zest of fine herbs – that sets the tone immediately: here, we talk about greed and drinkability more than demonstration. In the mouth, the weft is soft, the straight attack, the fruit circulates clearly. Nothing weighs, nothing exceeds: acidity holds the thread, the touch remains flowing, almost casual, but always fair. A wine of conversation and return from the vineyard, which drinks more than it does, and which leaves at the end of the mouth a simple and precious impression: the desire to replenish.
Sylvaner Old Vignes
Surface: 30.2 ares
Year of planting: 1963
Exposure: South-east
Here, the sylvaner has long memory. Ceps planted in 1963, turned southeast, who learned to speak low but clear. The nose opens on notes of crunchy white fruits, herbs, discreet flowers, with this light breath of anise or wild fennel. In the mouth, the line is straight, held, but never strict. The old vine gives a quiet density, a tight material without heaviness. The acidity runs like a chalk trait, the middle of the mouth becomes more embossed, the finish extends on a sweet salinity, almost stony. It is a sylvaner, more peasant than worldly, who prefers sharpness rather than scruff and naturally finds his place at the table.
PINOT BLACK CAMILLE
Surface: 121 acres
Year of planting: 1961 and 2018
Exposure: South-East
Two generations of black pinot planted on the same southeast slope, like a dialogue between age and youth. In the nose, the red fruit moves first – grieving, raspberry, small berries – then comes, by touches, the fine spices and a hint of dried rose, bristles, discreet memory of undergrowth. In the mouth, the frame remains fluid, without makeup. Here the pinot plays the map of finesse rather than power: fine tannins, delicate grain, extension carried by acidity rather than by mass. The old vine brings the bottom, the young lantern; Together, they draw a black pinot of equilibrium, where the south-east light feels in the right maturity of the fruit, but where the gesture of the winegrower refuses heaviness. A wine that prefers the clear phrase to the handle effect.
