Domaine Labranche Laffont Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Sec 2023 campania The winds and ocean mist

The winds and ocean mist that permeate the vineyards and the winery on the island of Pico find their way into each bottle

Many of Alto Piemonte’s once famous vineyards were abandoned in the age of urban migration

with tannins that build slowly on the finish alongside earthy base notes

and white stone

Domaine Drouhin’s holdings extend from Burgundy’s most northerly vineyards of Chablis to the Southern reaches of the Macconais

Domaine Labranche Laffont Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Sec 2023 campania The winds and ocean mistThe first thing you learn when visiting southwest France is that its not quite French. Walk into a caf out in the country, you might hear Occitan, a language roughly equidistant between French and Catalan. Look at a road sign, and you will instantly get lost, because place names in this part of France look like theyre written in Celtic. However, wine is an international language, and in Pacherenc, growers use Gros and Petit Manseng to make pure magic