Chardonnay “Marcette” Domaine de la Borde, Julien Mareschal, Arbois 2021 organic saumur and routinely produces award-winning white

and routinely produces award-winning white wines made solely from estate-grown fruit

A thick layer of flor yeast

the other being the poor red stony clay soils of Les Hautes Garrigues

Inspired by Jerez and the Jura

the grapes are hand harvested and undergo spontaneous fermentation in open vats before ageing in old French oak barrels for 5 months

Chardonnay “Marcette” Domaine de la Borde, Julien Mareschal, Arbois 2021 organic saumur and routinely produces award-winning whiteDOMAINE DE LA BORDE, JULIEN MARESCHAL, Arbois Julien Mareschal is one of the only people to make wine in the Cte de Caillot, right outside of Pupillin. He works organically and has been in conversion to biodynamics since 2012. Each of his wines has a vineyard name. Proportionately, he has a lot of Savagnin, almost 50% of his vineyard holdings, grown on grey marls. His Savagnin called Foudre a Canon is ouille, fermented in foudres and bottled a little