2022 Domaine du Gringet, 'La Paille' Ayze Blanc, Savoie, France Santa Duc with occasional gentle pump-overs

with occasional gentle pump-overs

000 feet in elevation upon beds of schist over limestone

Grapes are fermented in French oak 500L barrels and then aged for 8 months

Once hand harvested the fruit was kept intact and partially foot crushed before transferred to open fermenters where it remained for three weeks

the nose is spice-drenched and soaring

2022 Domaine du Gringet, 'La Paille' Ayze Blanc, Savoie, France Santa Duc with occasional gentle pump-oversThe Gringet here comes from a South facing, sunny and precocious terroir planted at old vines (between 1929 and 1931) on white marls. After a gentle, slow cycle press and 24 hour dbourbage, the wine feeds into concrete eggs where it rests until bottling. Once bottled (always unfiltered and unfined) it sees a further 10 month ageing in bottle.