Full bottle 1,159 g. 100% Bourboulenc from a single vineyard (Côte  Blanche) farmed organically and biodynamically. Hand-picked. Spontaneous fermentation. Unfined, unfiltered.
I cannot actually believe how much this wine has changed since I last tasted it in July 2023, when I described it as ‘not particularly expressive’. I wonder if Bourboulenc can be a bit like Grüner and Semillon in the way that they are sometimes very poker-faced when young and then explode into eloquence with bottle age. There is a gorgeous smoky-honey, linalool perfume hovering over the glass, and then the wine tastes of galanghal and rose water, ginger and chamomile tea, dried mango and bitter-lime peel. Sweet fennel fragrance lingers on the finish. Pretty exciting. Judging by structure and freshness, there is absolutely no hurry to drink this. (TC)

Full bottle 1,166 g. 100% Cinsault from old vines planted in 1964. No added sulphites. Certified organic (Ecocert).
Nothing like the much heavier version of this wine, the 2022, that I tasted in 2024, and now possibly up there in my Top Ten of chillable, crushable reds. This is yes-please-drink-me damn delicious! Cherries and raspberries with a crunchy bright slash of red apple and a zig-zag of cumin seed. Everything about this wine is in the moment. It’s exactly the kind of wine I want to drink with my kimchi jjiagae belly pork, with prawns dipped in sriracha butter, with cilbir Turkish eggs. (TC)