Borto 2019 Domaine Houillon In the cellar the grapes

In the cellar the grapes ferment on their own yeasts and the wine goes into bottle unfined and unfiltered

It comes out pale and properly dry

with citrus

Chaponnieres is white Burgundy made the way he makes everything: native yeasts

a bitter almond note at the edges

Borto 2019 Domaine Houillon In the cellar the grapesBorto is the odd one at Ormiale, and deliberately so. Fabrice Domercq and Jasper Morrison introduced it as a micro cuve in 2018: half Cabernet Franc, half Merlot, destemmed by hand and raised in a rancio sec style, which means oxidative and dry rather than sweet. It runs to sixteen percent and still manages to taste crisp, which is the whole trick of it. Walnut and dried fig, orange peel, a spiced savoury depth and a finish that carries well past the