2024 Louis Billard Chambolle-Musigny, Cote de Nuits, France Veronica Ortega (Its highly unorthodox nature

(Its highly unorthodox nature

Harvest generally occurs during the first two weeks of October

Notes: Bright red cherry fruit with some tropical notes

The Baranek Vineyard is located in a land-locked portion of central Clarkburg in silty clay loam soils

Half of the grapes were fermented whole-bunch carbonic for three weeks and the other half fermented entirely whole-cluster but open top with gentle hand plunging for roughly a week

2024 Louis Billard Chambolle-Musigny, Cote de Nuits, France Veronica Ortega (Its highly unorthodox natureFrom limestone heavy mid slope parcels, the wine is cold soaked five days and native fermented 14 days with early pump overs and light punch downs, at 80% whole clusters, then aged 14 months in barrel (30% new) and 2 months stainless, lenticularly filtered slowly, and bottled at ~15 mg L free SO (~900 bottles)