Haut Bourg, Muscadet Cotes de Grandlieu Origine du Haut Bourg, 2015 SO032425 Pouillon Le Vigne Niche Montalto comes

Le Vigne Niche Montalto comes from 60-90 year old vines at 900-950 meters elevation on volcanic ash soils—one of the highest sites in the Etna DOC

Their Reposado is rested just long enough in ex-American oak to soften and round the spirit

Walter Channing purchased the land in 1979 and planted the first vines in 1982—the first Chardonnay in the Bridgehampton area

There's no barrel here

released only in exceptional years and aged a full decade on the lees

Haut Bourg, Muscadet Cotes de Grandlieu Origine du Haut Bourg, 2015 SO032425 Pouillon Le Vigne Niche Montalto comesMuscadet doesn't ask for timeit asks to be drunk young and fresh. Then came Haut Bourg. The Choblet brothers, a fourth generation family working these vineyards since 1944, age their Melon de Bourgogne sur lie for years on end, completely upending what this wine can be. The 2015 is now eleven years old: waxy citrus, guava, saline minerality, wet stone. It challenges everything you think you know about Muscadet, proving that patience and limestone rich