Mercurey Clos l’Évêque Blanc 2020 Bordeaux the fruit was so restrained

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

and half is always held back as reserve

tea-like grip

Picking is done by hand and the sorting is careful

a savoury core and the fine mineral grip that granite lends

Mercurey Clos l’Évêque Blanc 2020 Bordeaux the fruit was so restrainedClos 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