2022, Domaine de Villaine, BOURGOGNE CÔTE CHALONNAISE, Rouge, 'La Digoine'Domaine Notes: With its nose direct and serious, the Digoine give the impression of sobriety. On the palate, the frankness of the fruit enhanced by the tannins is a little more present than those of La Fortune. These tannins, even if they concentrate the texture of the wine, they remain however, silky and give La Digoine a saline sensation softening the wine and making it digest. As always, we can perceive this wine is nourished by the energy of the

Sharp and straight but stylish

The majority of the fruit derives from Le Petit Maupertuis

Beautifully delineated and expressed

As it relaxes in the glass

tobacco and exotic spice

fresh blackberries

ready for decades ahead

A lower proportion of whole bunches this year

Exupery is a terrific effort

this is definitely a level up from the previous vintage

and it absolutely lives up to billing now that it is in bottle

In 2013 Julie and Baptiste began separating out some of the parcels of Sauvignon Blanc that had been growing from the Sancerre stock - they were becoming increasingly impressed with the wines from certain areas with a clay/limestone sub-soil