Domaine du Vissoux (Pierre-Marie Chermette), Beaujolais Coeur de Vendages, 2016 MSK_Champagne_Pre-Sale_2023 Meursault for people who drink

Meursault for people who drink wine rather than collect it

The wine opens with classic red and black cherry

and lacy mineral tension

before this volcanic butte hooked him for good

age-worthy whites from Friuli-Venezia Giulia—where the Julian Alps meet the Adriatic on hills of marl

Domaine du Vissoux (Pierre-Marie Chermette), Beaujolais Coeur de Vendages, 2016 MSK_Champagne_Pre-Sale_2023 Meursault for people who drinkPierre 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