Mickaël Bourg Saint-Péray 2023 Mendoza and a chalky mineral grip

and a chalky mineral grip

cool growing season in which physiological ripeness arrived at unusually low sugar levels

and with indigenous fermentation

mirrors the wine’s understated earthiness and fine tannins

Les Tours comes from hillside vines there

Mickaël Bourg Saint-Péray 2023 Mendoza and a chalky mineral gripThe Land Saint Pray is the last appellation at the southern end of the northern Rhne, sitting on the west bank of the river directly across from Valence, and it makes only white wine. In the nineteenth century it was one of the most sought after sparkling wines in France; today almost all of it is still. Soils here split between granite and clay limestone, and the split matters. Bourg's parcels, in the lieux dits Combe, Biousse, and Les Putiers, sit