2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos du Chateau des Ducs, Volnay Premier Cru, France Emme Wines cultivated and vinified by Vincent

cultivated and vinified by Vincent Gross

Years past “Kind of Orange” was made from Sauvignon Blanc from Mendocino

A great wine with 13

on clay-limestone and marl soils

It is an elegant and understated wine with just enough grip to let you know it was skin-fermented but not too much to turn off the ‘casual’ orange wine drinker

2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Clos du Chateau des Ducs, Volnay Premier Cru, France Emme Wines cultivated and vinified by Vincentfrom the domaines walled monopole in the heart of Volnay on very shallow, stony limestone with thin brown clay; farmed biodynamically and harvested by hand. Fruit is rigorously sorted with a measured share of whole clusters when stems are perfectly ripe, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in open vats with gentle extraction. levage runs 1418 months in older 228 L pices (no new oak) with minimal racking; SO is added only after malolactic, and