Terre à Terre Les Crayères Reserve Fumé Blanc 2024

For this wine, the team ensure severe bunch thinning in the vineyard to help concentrate flavours. After whole bunch pressing, fermentation is in old 600-litre oak barrels called demi-muids. There is no malolactic fermentation and the wine remains in oak for the remainder of the year. 1,050 six-packs made. A straw hue, this is taut, tight and poised. There are early hints of complexity already evident, while the nose provides notes of citrus, grass and dried herbs. The wine has excellent length and balance and is well focused. An impressive version of this grape, even if somewhat different to what so many expect. It should drink impressively over the next six to eight years.