Chateau Sainte-Marie Entre-deux-Mers Petite Marie Blanc 2024 web-unpublished There is no pyrazine bomb

There is no pyrazine bomb here

This one is a 50/50 blend of Pineau d'Aunis and Grolleau

and their "vigneronne" series is the strangest and best thing they do: spontaneously fermented beer aged for months in old barrels on the grapes and lees of winemaker friends

and it ages

Bernard Defaix has been working the slopes around Milly since 1959

Chateau Sainte-Marie Entre-deux-Mers Petite Marie Blanc 2024 web-unpublished There is no pyrazine bombStephane Dupuch is the fifth generation of his family at Chteau Sainte Marie in Entre Deux Mers, and Petite Marie is the white that captures the estate at its most playful and most honest. Sauvignon Blanc led with Semillon for weight, including parcels of remarkable old vines (some over a century old, survivors of the catastrophic 1956 frost), it is farmed with a real eye toward organics and biodiversity. The result is salty, just ripe peach with lime