Drrrrty drrrrty beauty with a fruitiness hard to explain, ratchety and alive through pensive peat and briar. Here’s the deal: HOW do you produce a bottle of this for 25 bucks while California meanders about with $50+ offerings and claim stagnation and un-sustainability in sales and ROI??!? Get it right, people. Everything French is more beautiful, and *natural*, and believable, and drinkable.

2017 DOMAINE DES HAUTES TROGLODYTES Saumer Champigny #loire 12.5