Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 26REASONABLE Tiny yields from low-vigor old

Tiny yields from low-vigor old vines create remarkable concentration

with vines planted on the region's famous deep gravels

the oldest cellar in Gattinara

It comes from a single vineyard planted in 1997 down in Castelnuovo dell'Abate

Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 26REASONABLE Tiny yields from low-vigor oldA one man, hands off Burgundy operation worth knowing. Nicolas Faure trained at Domaine de la Romanee Conti and with Jean Louis Chave before building his own tiny domaine from scratch around Meuilley in the Cote de Nuits, farming organically and vinifying with whole clusters and minimal sulfur. This Merlot is a deliberate oddity: a Vin de France bottling from a grape you almost never see in Burgundy, made with the same low intervention, freshness