2023 Les Bottes Rouges, Arbois 'Leon' Chardonnay Jura, France E.H. Taylor This wine is pre-arrival and

This wine is pre-arrival and will late mid-late April

It is the only vineyard where blue slate is the dominant soil

it’s just beginning to enter its long drinking window

followed by a second on the sorting table

We were skeptics too

2023 Les Bottes Rouges, Arbois 'Leon' Chardonnay Jura, France E.H. Taylor This wine is pre-arrival andThe vines are planted in clay heavy soils and the grapes are usually harvested at the end of September. Direct press into 3,000L foudre for alcoholic and malolactic fermentation before racking into smaller, 440L neutral oak barrels. Jean Baptiste concludes that this is an incredibly age worthy white wine.