Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 26REASONABLE A wine to drink now

A wine to drink now or cellar for many years

These plantings were completed with the last plot 1 hectare

with vines planted on the region's famous deep gravels

It comes from a single vineyard planted in 1997 down in Castelnuovo dell'Abate

and her vineyards sit next to a nature reserve on chalky soil full of marine fossils

Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 26REASONABLE A wine to drink nowA one man, hands off Burgundy operation worth knowing. Nicolas Faure trained at Domaine de la Romanee Conti and with Jean Louis Chave before building his own tiny domaine from scratch around Meuilley in the Cote de Nuits, farming organically and vinifying with whole clusters and minimal sulfur. This Merlot is a deliberate oddity: a Vin de France bottling from a grape you almost never see in Burgundy, made with the same low intervention, freshness