Comte Abbatucci, Vin de France Rouge "Faustine", 2025 reasonable cellar 2024 founded in 2006 by four

founded in 2006 by four young growers to champion organic farming and craft sparkling wine

and alligator—with wild-foraged botanicals including ponderosa pine bark

' picked up the ball and ran

Piaggione is a steep

The palate is crisp and refreshing

Comte Abbatucci, Vin de France Rouge "Faustine", 2025 reasonable cellar 2024 founded in 2006 by fourThis is the red half of Abbatucci's Faustine pair, and it's your introduction to Sciaccarellu, Corsica's great red grape that almost nobody grows off the island. Led by Sciaccarellu (roughly 70%) with a substantial share of Niellucciu (roughly 30%), it comes from granite soils near Ajaccio, farmed by one of the Mediterranean's most committed biodynamic growers. The grapes are destemmed but not crushed, macerated about a month in concrete, fermented