Philippe Alliet sealed the deal for Chinon by building his reference point in Bordeaux rather than Burgundy
Jérôme's 2024 Bourgogne Blanc punches above its class with vibrant acidity and clean white stone fruits
Approachable now but built to age fifteen years or more
it is all orchard fruit and wet-stone tension
For collectors of world-class Garnacha
Clos Venturi, 1769 Rose, 2025 So03052026 2021 Produttori Philippe Alliet sealed the dealCorsica is not the volcanic island you might assume it is. Most of the island wines we get excited about come from strictly volcanic ground Etna, Santorini, the Canaries but Corsica is a geological patchwork, and Clos Venturi farms it high in the mountainous interior around Ponte Leccia, about as far from the Mediterranean as you can get here. Manu Venturi works biodynamically, with sheep, horses and bees doing genuine labor in the vineyards rather