Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 CS20230906 Japanese whiskey-inspired

Japanese whiskey-inspired

5% reserve wine

and it's been certified organic since 2015

Nocino is what happens when you pick walnuts too early on purpose

evolving into hints of almond and white peach

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 CS20230906 Japanese whiskey-inspiredTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,