Franco's rosso represents his natural wine approach applied to Sicilian reds
and in a wine like this the fruit is delicate while the site's structure does the talking
and this Brouilly is their gentler
The Yamadanishiki rice is polished to 50% and the area enjoys very soft water
even though the DOC would allow up to 40% Salamino to fill it out
Chateau Doisy Daene, Sauternes, 2005 (375ml) so081122 summer white wine sale Franco's rosso represents his natural2005 handed Barsac one of its great modern botrytis vintages: a drought summer, then just enough rain in early September to set clean noble rot, followed by weeks of morning fog and afternoon sun. Doisy Daene is a Second Growth of Barsac, the cooler limestone enclave inside Sauternes, and has been in the Dubourdieu family since 1924, a name synonymous with brilliant white winemaking in Bordeaux. This is the classic sweet bottling, a Semillon led blend