Gautheron Chablis 1er Cru Montee de Tonnerre 2023 CRV Garnacha Blanca is the indigenous

Garnacha Blanca is the indigenous white of northeast Spain — Garnacha's pale-skinned sibling — and Zorzal works it from organically farmed high-altitude vines on stony clay-and-limestone in Navarra

This is a 100% sagrantino bubbly

The palate is supple as it delivers red and black fruit flavors backed by silken minerality and a deft touch of acidity

That means mountain farming on steep Santa Cruz slopes

Gautheron Chablis 1er Cru Montee de Tonnerre 2023 CRV Garnacha Blanca is the indigenousMontee de Tonnerre sits right across the valley from the Grand Crus, and many drinkers consider it the most Grand Cru like of all the Chablis 1ers. Cyril Gautheron, seventh generation vigneron in the tiny village of Fleys, farms his old school domaine with low yields and an emphasis on transparent terroir. Half the juice ferments in a 10HL cement egg with lees in constant motion; the other half in barrel. The result is intense and saline, with the