Jean-Baptiste Souillard Marsanne 2023 st-chinian-rouge-aoc and Thibaut Chevré’s light touch

and Thibaut Chevré’s light touch in the cellar

Alois Junior (Luis) set the world on fire with his ‘new’ style of dessert wine

The fruit was hand-picked from two vineyards in the Central Wairau subregion

this is very promising

all underpinned by fine and attractively rustic tannins

Jean-Baptiste Souillard Marsanne 2023 st-chinian-rouge-aoc and Thibaut Chevré’s light touchHistorically, Soullards Marsanne has come from a postage stamp sized parcel (0. 2 ha) of vines west of Bziers at Capestang (in the Hrault). As of 2022, it incudes one third Saint Joseph fruit from the granite soils of Le Chavanat and Les Pales both in Andance. The fruit spent a short period on skins before being basket pressed. Souillard retained some of the Some press component was retained, which firms up the structure and provides a mouth watering,