Brasserie des Voirons Chenin Blanc 2024 SPRHONE Second wines from good estates

Second wines from good estates in great vintages remain one of the few honest ways to drink mature Bordeaux without a fight

and that was that

Fumin is the great red grape of the Valle d'Aosta

worked biodynamically

The Boxlers have farmed in Niedermorschwihr since 1673 and have never been especially interested in fashion

Brasserie des Voirons Chenin Blanc 2024 SPRHONE Second wines from good estatesYes, it says Chenin Blanc. No, it isn't wine. Brasserie des Voirons brews in the Haute Savoie hills above Lake Geneva, and their "vigneronne" series is the strangest and best thing they do: spontaneously fermented beer aged for months in old barrels on the grapes and lees of winemaker friends. Chenin turns up with its usual bag of tricks quince, orchard fruit, beeswax, a lick of honey but wrapped around a beer's grain and body, with a wild yeast tang