Mercurey Clos l’Évêque Blanc 2020 Bordeaux and half is always held

and half is always held back as reserve

the fruit was so restrained and refined that a normal pressing could not draw it out

One of our favourite whites at the moment

Expect lychee and rose

and the long saline line that only mountains give

Mercurey Clos l’Évêque Blanc 2020 Bordeaux and half is always heldClos l'vque is one of Mercurey's better known climats, and this is David Lefort's white from it. He came to the Cte Chalonnaise in 2010 after studying medicine and philosophy in Paris, took on two hectares of Mercurey premier cru that same year, and learned the job in the rows. Biodynamics underpin the farming. In the cellar the grapes ferment on their own yeasts and the wine goes into bottle unfined and unfiltered, with a share of new oak in the