Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 spirits-template Cannonnau (old Catalan Grenache grown

Cannonnau (old Catalan Grenache grown in Sardinia)

Surprisingly dry

stone fruit skin

Its deep brown color is attractive and deep

farming in the weathered granite soils of the Salnés Valley where Atlantic breezes moderate ripening and build remarkable minerality

Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 spirits-template Cannonnau (old Catalan Grenache grownSaint Bris is Burgundy's oddball: the only appellation in the entire region planted to Sauvignon Blanc, a grape everyone else files under Loire or New Zealand. Grown here on the same Kimmeridgian limestone that makes Chablis what it is, Sauvignon behaves differently, turning steely and linear and saline instead of tropical, with a gravity that seems to come only from northern limestone. The Bersan family has roots in this corner of the Auxerrois going