Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars Cotes de Castillon 2000 GERAUS complexity and bitterness from assenzio

complexity and bitterness from assenzio

Drink now through the next decade

This is natural winemaking at its most philosophically committed

New oak is capped at 15%

Fichet works a small collection of parcels around Meursault - every one of them under a hectare - and the vines behind his Bourgogne Blanc run roughly 47 to 80 years old

Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars Cotes de Castillon 2000 GERAUS complexity and bitterness from assenzioA perfectly cellared back vintage from a quietly brilliant Castillon estate. Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars sits in Castillon Cotes de Bordeaux on the right bank, near Le Puy, where Regis Moro farmed organically and worked with low intervention long before it was fashionable, spontaneous fermentations, no new oak, gentle bottling. This Merlot led blend with Cabernet Franc comes from clay limestone soils and, now twenty five years on, the 2000 vintage is