Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 2022 NO20231025 Valdiguie is the grape California

Valdiguie is the grape California spent decades calling Napa Gamay - a misidentification finally corrected by a French ampelographer in 1980

an acquired taste

90% Listan Blaco and the rest Albillo

This is a nice step up from the Selection Belles Annees and definitely the next one to try in the Gimonnet collection

This is Davide Rosso's village-level Barolo

Domaine Ramonet Chassagne Montrachet 2022 NO20231025 Valdiguie is the grape CaliforniaIf you want to know what a domaine actually believes, drink its village wine. The grand crus can hide behind their addresses; a village Chassagne has nowhere to go. Ramonet's is assembled from parcels across the appellation, native fermented and raised mostly in older barrels, and it tastes like a scaled down version of the serious bottles rather than a different wine entirely. 2022 was warm and abundant and then surprised everyone by hanging onto its