Chateau Sainte-Marie Entre-deux-Mers Petite Marie Blanc 2024 web-unpublished Le Fief Noir (meaning 'the

Le Fief Noir (meaning 'the black plot') was established in 2014 by Dominique Sirot and Alexis Soulas

Founded by the late Mark Tarlov with Burgundian Louis-Michel Comte Liger-Belair and terroir consultant Pedro Parra

and their "vigneronne" series is the strangest and best thing they do: spontaneously fermented beer aged for months in old barrels on the grapes and lees of winemaker friends

The 2000 vintage was hailed from the start as one of the great modern Bordeaux years

Chateau Sainte-Marie Entre-deux-Mers Petite Marie Blanc 2024 web-unpublished Le Fief Noir (meaning 'theStephane Dupuch is the fifth generation of his family at Chteau Sainte Marie in Entre Deux Mers, and Petite Marie is the white that captures the estate at its most playful and most honest. Sauvignon Blanc led with Semillon for weight, including parcels of remarkable old vines (some over a century old, survivors of the catastrophic 1956 frost), it is farmed with a real eye toward organics and biodiversity. The result is salty, just ripe peach with lime