Haut Lavigne Rosé 2024 no-wrapin

Haut Lavigne Rosé 2024 no-wrapin50% Cabernet Sauvignon and 50% Cabernet Franc, hand harvested from 25 year old vines. The fruit is grown in clay soils peppered with limestone, sand & silex. After harvest, the grapes are direct pressed and cofermented before a short resting period, to the tune of a few weeks, before being bottled unfined, unfiltered, with very little SO2 added. Soft, flirty, dry, with medium body, this isn't the clunky ros you'll typically find in the southwestern

Every bottle is filled entirely from a single barrel that has aged through 40 Kentucky seasons

'The proprietors

They do make grand cru Cortons

easy stuff for spaghetti and ziti and meatball subs

along with his partner Polly Giragosian — is all of these things

less juniper-forward

native fermentation

fresh and clean Treixadura from the 'green heart of Spain'—here are zesty aromatics of apricot

aged at first for 3 years in American oak and then finished in up to 20-year-old port casks

It's characteristically sweet and quite soft on the palate

he took over from his father Jacques in 1999 and focused on more oxidative winemaking immediately

Ideal Chenin Blanc—round