Justin Dutraive Beaujolais Les Tours Saint-Etienne la Varenne 2024 Off Dry Spiced blackberry

Spiced blackberry

leaner and more precise than many of its neighbors in Puligny

Spontaneous fermentation with native yeasts and no additives

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who had worked alongside him for years

Justin Dutraive Beaujolais Les Tours Saint-Etienne la Varenne 2024 Off Dry Spiced blackberryThe Land Saint tienne la Varenne is a Beaujolais Villages commune that presses right up against the Brouilly boundary, which means the village keeps a Villages label while farming slopes that behave like cru land. Les Tours comes from hillside vines there, on the decomposed granite that defines the southern crus. Granite drains hard and holds heat poorly, which is exactly what Gamay wants: it forces the vine to work, keeps yields honest, and puts a