2024 Wolf & Woman (Jolandie Fouché) Grenache Blanc 2024Mountain grown and quietly assured, this Grenache Blanc opens with pear skin, white peach pit, lemon pith, and a faint brush of dried herbs and crushed stone. The palate carries a gentle lees borne breadthslightly waxy, subtly salinebalanced by cool, tensile acidity that keeps everything lifted and precise. Less about overt fruit than texture and place, it finishes clean, savory, and composed, with a lingering echo of citrus oil and granite dust.

Maurice envisioned a wine built around his fond memories of the Mediterranean

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Polished but still conversational

and as such

The palate is taut and textural rather than overtly fruity

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roasted cedar and toasted bread providing layers and depth

Beneath it all runs a quiet but persistent current of stony minerality—cool and saline—that gives the wine its shape