Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 26REASONABLE and her vineyards sit next

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

herbal finish that lingers with intrigue

and completely compelling

one-of-a-kind shochu made from ginger local to Japan’s Miyazaki prefecture

It comes from a single vineyard planted in 1997 down in Castelnuovo dell'Abate

Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 26REASONABLE and her vineyards sit nextA one man, hands off Burgundy operation worth knowing. Nicolas Faure trained at Domaine de la Romanee Conti and with Jean Louis Chave before building his own tiny domaine from scratch around Meuilley in the Cote de Nuits, farming organically and vinifying with whole clusters and minimal sulfur. This Merlot is a deliberate oddity: a Vin de France bottling from a grape you almost never see in Burgundy, made with the same low intervention, freshness