2020 Cariboom
Alice goes exploring again, in the name of great fruit made by honest people. This Carignan and Grenache comes from the biodynamic vineyards of Claude Ughetto in the Vaucluse. The former pressed directly and the latter infused as whole bunches for three weeks. After pressing, the wines were assembled in cuve to rest until the following spring. The result is a light, bright and perfumed wine with notes of red cherry, citrus and bitter herbs that pile on the charm. Some wines you have to try i...Read More...
Alice goes exploring again, in the name of great fruit made by honest people. This Carignan and Grenache comes from the biodynamic vineyards of Claude Ughetto in the Vaucluse. The former pressed directly and the latter infused as whole bunches for three weeks. After pressing, the wines were assembled in cuve to rest until the following spring. The result is a light, bright and perfumed wine with notes of red cherry, citrus and bitter herbs that pile on the charm.
Some wines you have to try in your life. Alice’s are a good example. Made in impossibly small quantities, Alice Bouvot sets to work in her Arbois winery using organic grapes from her 3.6 hectares of vineyards scattered around and about the town. She has access to some of the most beautiful sites in the Jura; En Curon, La Maillloche, Les Nouvelles, etc. All it is is love, time and grapes. Some are classical expressions of an old region, oxidative and magical whites, or butterfly-footstep-light reds. The others, an almost diabolical twist from the norm, keep that aforementioned butterfly on its toes. Because there’s not a lot of fruit to rely on each year, she occasionally buys fruit from friends around France (as the De Moor’s do), but you can always tell her signature wine making stamp. There’s something there, and it’s truly beautiful.