2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Sake 5th generation winemaker Frederic Magnien

5th generation winemaker Frederic Magnien only works with certified Organic vineyards

Juan Carlos López de Lacalle walked away from the Rioja DOCa rather than let a bureaucratic label obscure the identity of individual villages — "Laguardia alone is bigger than Châteauneuf-du-Pape

with a deep chill this makes even porch pounding from the bottle somehow sophisticated

zippy but balanced in its unoaked texture

Made from Gohyakumangoku rice and polished to 58%

2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Volnay Sake 5th generation winemaker Frederic MagnienRed cherry, raspberry, rose petal, and a thread of chalky earth airy and caressing, with the kind of silky texture that makes Volnay famous and the kind of precision that makes Lafarge a reference. Certified organic and Demeter certified biodynamic, 50 year old vines on clay limestone, native yeast, 18 months in barrel. Three generations of the same family, the same village, the same conviction Frdric and Clothilde Lafarge making Volnay the way it was