This Vieilles Vignes comes from the family's oldest parcels around Chaintres and the surrounding clay-limestone communes southeast of Saumur
No hands are steadier than Rousseau's
or after dinner on its own
the kind of low-intervention red that begs for a slight chill and an easy night
dry summer drove concentration ranked among the greatest Sauternes vintages of the modern era
Brovia, Barolo Rocche di Castiglione, 2013 Clusel Roch 2021 2nd prereceive This Vieilles Vignes comes from2013 cool, late ripening, high in acid is exactly the sort of classical vintage that plays to this cru's strengths: perfume and tension rather than weight. Brovia farms some of Castiglione Falletto's best sites, and Rocche di Castiglione is one of the Barolo zone's most celebrated crus, a long, steep, limestone rich slope facing southeast that yields wine of perfume and finesse rather than brute power. Brovia's style here weds generous fruit to that