Radicalement Rouge 2023 Skin contact and the wine keeps everything

and the wine keeps everything that makes this corner of Spain worth drinking

a village on the edge of the Bugey where the Jura massif runs into the Alpine foothills

The palate opens with gentle weight and a silky texture

This is the third vintage of that idea

Maï Lam of La Maï Wines works alongside him on much the same principles

Radicalement Rouge 2023 Skin contact and the wine keeps everythingRadicalement is the straightforward end of what Marc Houtin and Alexandre Forge make at Les Vignes du Fresche, and there is nothing at all wrong with straightforward. They took the estate on in 2022: twenty four hectares in one unbroken piece on a schist plateau above the Loire at La Pommeraye, farmed organically for over twenty years. Everything is picked by hand, fermented on its own yeasts and raised in large vessels, with sulphur used only where a