Domaine des Croix Savigny-Les-Beaune 1er Cru Les Peuillets 2023 modified_title_tag and the first sulfur added

and the first sulfur added only at bottling

and (new this vintage) WindRock — all family-owned sites along the SLH bench — to build a wine with both the dark-fruited intensity of the Highlands and the layered finesse of well-handled Pinot

concentrated but never heavy

a meditation in a glass on time and terroir

2023 came in a touch lower in alcohol than the regular bottling

Domaine des Croix Savigny-Les-Beaune 1er Cru Les Peuillets 2023 modified_title_tag and the first sulfur addedLes Peuillets is the most immediately charming of David Croix's premier crus a single 0. 57 hectare parcel planted in 1971 on the clay limestone alluvial fan that spreads along the Beaune side of Savigny, ground that gives perfume and open red fruit rather than brooding structure. Croix founded the domaine in 2005 after years running the cellar at Camille Giroud, and farms organically (since 2008) with very low yields and a light touch: ambient yeasts