Medium gold with yellow highlights in color. The intense grapefruit and white peach, gun flint minerality, fresh brioche, subtle nuttiness, fruit purity and slightly charry oak all converge on the nose. The palate shows balanced French oak, creamy and long, with a fine talc-like grip, a spine of ripe acid backbone balanced with carefully considered malolactic fermentation to support this brighter, tighter style.

These days easily one of the very best contemporary white wines of France, this is produced from 90% Grenache Gris and 10% Grenache Blanc. Stylistically these channel Ganevat if you can believe that, they have similar cut and verve - piercingly fresh and floral with faint hints at nashi pear and stone, the fact that the grapes were grown at altitude keeps this wine tight, fine and mineral. In fact you could be forgiven for thinking that this had a good slug of the finest Chablis in it such is it's moreish flavour and mineral nature. This is superb.