Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Ploussard Fertans 2023 RFLASH and her vineyards sit next

and her vineyards sit next to a nature reserve on chalky soil full of marine fossils

working with appellations beyond his home base

It becomes roasted and bittersweet and slightly smoky with an undercurrent of grassiness at the midpalate

A one time bottling from Apffel of sparkling wine made from Jacquere vines planted in 1956

no oak makeup smeared over the top

Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Ploussard Fertans 2023 RFLASH and her vineyards sit nextMarin Fumey calls this a barbecue wine, which tells you most of what you need to know. Ploussard Poulsard, if you're reading a textbook makes the palest red in France, so translucent you can nearly read through the glass, and yet it carries enough savory grip to stand up to char and smoke. Fertans is a south facing plot of seventy year old vines, hand destemmed out in the vineyard the old fashioned way and made with barely any extraction at all. At