Crushed raspberries and tobacco, fresh flowers, salty crackers, oyster shell. Let the aromatics slowly unfurl out of the glass, really give it time. The weight, the texture, the acidity are all in balance, playing off each other, and this is just a wonderful wine that stops you in your tracks. Located at 1,450m, from a 1.4ha limestone plot, particularly rich in microorganisms (as we learnt through the producer’s brilliant recent terroir studies). It’s a place where phenolic ripeness happens slowly and the complexity builds as a result. A spring frost reduced yields by about 20%; fermented with 50% whole cluster between concrete vats and oak casks. 4,800 bottles produced.