France

Clairette de Bellegarde

Medium

Cork

White

À little-known appellation, and from this example alone it deserves to be better known. This is serious, with heft and body, an oily quality but also a long and searching mineral character, almost minty. There's certainly a ripe and flowery side to the variety, apricot and fleshy fruit, but it holds its own against a good structure.

Clairette

Mas Carlot, La Terre Natale, Clairette de Bellegarde, Rhône, France, 2024

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À little-known appellation, and from this example alone it deserves to be better known. This is serious, with heft and body, an 

Mas Carlot, La Terre Natale, Clairette de Bellegarde, Costières de Nîmes, Rhône, France 2024

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