DOMAINE des MARNES BLANCHES LES MOLATES SAVAGNIN 2022

This assemblage comes from several plots around the town of Sainte-Agnès. The vines average 25-years-old and are planted on limestone over marl. The grapes are pressed directly to barrel for fermentation and malolactic conversion. No bâtonnage is done during élevage, and the barrels are kept fully topped to prevent oxidation. The wine is bottled unfined and unfiltered with minimal SO2 after 10 months.

95/100 Mike Bennie, The Wine Front, April 2024 (2022 Vintage)
"This wine delivers very pure savagnin grape variety character with a minimal ten months spent in foudre. Natural ferment, no additions, no filtering and the like. As is Jura. A textural feast and refreshment factor in tow. Such a superb wine. Stellar in its kaleidoscope of green apple, salted cashew, sea spray, faint fino sherry, nougat, honey, cinnamon, alpine herb notes. The palate a feast of chalky pucker and faint juiciness in a tense frame of briny acidity, stretching long, fine and brilliant. It’s all crystals and crunch, wild minerality, savouriness and just straight up damn excitement. This sends a rocket up wines of plain varietal definition. I’m so in."