about 30% new — a format he favors for preserving cut and site transparency without heavy oak influence
more textured side of Le Mesnil while staying taut and precise
They have always worked in the traditional way: long macerations and fermentations
Chateau Feuillet is a tiny estate in Saint-Pierre near Aosta
Give it air and enjoy it now
Franck Balthazar, Cornas Chaillot, 2018 asimov what to drink in 2026 offer about 30% new — aChaillot is Franck Balthazar's legendary bottling, and the story is in the vines: a parcel planted in 1914 to pre clonal Petite Syrah, on granite up top and limestone lower down, which he took over from Nol Verset. Balthazar is a third generation purist in Cornas, plowing parcels with horses, farming without herbicides or fungicides, and vinifying whole cluster with native yeasts in concrete before raising the wine in old 600 liter demi muids and