L'Abeille de Fieuzal Pessac-Léognan Blanc 2016 1.5L Grape_Corvina holds the wine until bottle

holds the wine until bottle time pulls the mineral register forward

Very small quantity produced

cooled only during vatting

The result is ripe but focused: white peach

It's not a widely celebrated lieu-dit outside serious Burgundy circles

L'Abeille de Fieuzal Pessac-Léognan Blanc 2016 1.5L Grape_Corvina holds the wine until bottleThe Land Pessac Lognan is the heart of the Graves, the gravelly stretch of forest and vineyard just south of the city of Bordeaux. This is the birthplace of Bordeaux's dry whites, and the appellation is unusual in the region for taking its whites as seriously as its reds. Chteau de Fieuzal sits in Lognan on deep beds of gravel over clay and limestone, the classic Graves profile: sharp drainage, stones that hold the day's heat, and enough clay