'Clos de Pavée' Bourgueil 2021 Grape|Bergeron

'Clos de Pavée' Bourgueil 2021 Grape|BergeronThis is a young, crunchy Bourgueil full of bright cranberry and cherry fruit and plenty of the herbaceous capsicum notes you'd expect from the grape. Highly fragrant with charred green pepper on the nose and the finish leads to bitter dark chocolate. A really delicious, fresh expression of Bourgueil Pierre has changed the process up a little with the 2021 vintage, now opting for an 80 20 blend of de stemmed maceration and whole bunch carbonic, keeping

this time geared up for knocking back at the bistro table

Originally from San Sebastián

aromatically this jumps out of the glass with all things grapefruit

We would recommend laying this one down for a least 6 months

The acidity gives some welcome

Think saffron

now in the hands of Laurent Saillard and Julien Pineau

The fruit is all ripe and dried apricot with a medicinal twang of sage

Roberto makes all of his sparkling wine in the traditional method

Next-level sister wine to Fabio's 'Macerato' cuvée with a more refined process

rather than a typical wine

The soils here are the same decomposed granite (referred to locally as ‘gore’) one might find in the coveted Cornas AOC