Domaine du Vissoux (Pierre-Marie Chermette), Beaujolais Coeur de Vendages, 2016 MSK_Champagne_Pre-Sale_2023 The wine opens with classic

The wine opens with classic red and black cherry

Meursault for people who drink wine rather than collect it

500-liter foudres

Still very young with racy tension

but the gravelly terroir at Brane-Cantenac allowed for ripening that captured the best of the season

Domaine du Vissoux (Pierre-Marie Chermette), Beaujolais Coeur de Vendages, 2016 MSK_Champagne_Pre-Sale_2023 The wine opens with classicPierre Marie Chermette is a fifth generation Beaujolais grower who still does things the old way, no chaptalization, no added yeast, just traditional vinification that lets the terroir speak. Coeur de Vendanges is his Beaujolais bottling drawn from the heart of the harvest, and this 2016 has a decade of bottle age, giving a Gamay that has softened and gained savory depth. A back vintage Beaujolais that shows even the regional wines from a serious