Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Ploussard Fertans 2023 RFLASH no oak makeup smeared over

no oak makeup smeared over the top

working with appellations beyond his home base

is Cascahuín in its most authentic form

It becomes roasted and bittersweet and slightly smoky with an undercurrent of grassiness at the midpalate

*Rive Gauche* is a Pinot Meunier-dominant cuvée sourced from clay-limestone soils on the left bank of the Marne River

Fumey-Chatelain Arbois Ploussard Fertans 2023 RFLASH no oak makeup smeared overMarin Fumey calls this a barbecue wine, which tells you most of what you need to know. Ploussard Poulsard, if you're reading a textbook makes the palest red in France, so translucent you can nearly read through the glass, and yet it carries enough savory grip to stand up to char and smoke. Fertans is a south facing plot of seventy year old vines, hand destemmed out in the vineyard the old fashioned way and made with barely any extraction at all. At