Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny, 2009 photo search wet rock and a bright

wet rock and a bright

the result is savory

Benjamin Leroux spent fifteen vintages running Domaine du Comte Armand in Pommard before launching his own micro-negociant operation in Beaune in 2007

Elbling is one of the oldest grapes still in the ground in Europe — the Romans likely carried it up the Moselle — and for most of the last century it was treated as bulk fodder for cheap sparkling wine

Their vineyards lie on the volcanic slopes of Monte Vulture

Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny, 2009 photo search wet rock and a brightA mature village Chambolle from a generous vintage, at the stage where the fruit has resolved into perfume and the wine simply flows. The mid August heat of 2009 gave ripe, fleshy, low acid reds that charmed early; at seventeen years the good ones have shed the puppy fat and turned savory and open knit. Ghislaine Barthod farms 5. 86 hectares, almost all of it in Chambolle, bottling eleven separate premier crus and no grand cru, and her village wine