François Mikulski Monthelie Rouge Les Toisieres 2024 Region_Basque Country high-alcohol wine

high-alcohol wine

Joe and Shamai Buckel built Buckel Family Wine in Gunnison

100% Pinot Noir from vines planted 45–55 years ago

a plate of jamon and manchego

Fermented with ambient yeasts and raised in the traditional Wachau way in large old oak and stainless steel

François Mikulski Monthelie Rouge Les Toisieres 2024 Region_Basque Country high-alcohol wineThe Land Monthelie is the quiet village tucked just behind Volnay, and it remains one of the best value addresses in the Cte de Beaune precisely because it lives in its neighbor's shadow. Les Toisires sits at the entrance to the village on a southwest facing slope, and it was once a working quarry where flat stones were cut for roofing tiles. That history tells you everything about the soil: clay over hard limestone, the kind of stony ground that