2024 | Clos Floridène Blanc | Graves | France Saint-Veran and cured meats

and cured meats

This wine shows rich tropical fruit notes of ripe mango

the 2022 Ausone is concentrated yet fresh

and I am completely hooked

it reveals fine fruit aromas

2024 | Clos Floridène Blanc | Graves | France Saint-Veran and cured meatsDenis Dubourdieu's benchmark white Graves the late "pope of white wine" made this estate a Bordeaux reference. Clos Floridne was the home estate of the late Professor Denis Dubourdieu, the legendary oenologist known as the "pope of white Bordeaux." This white Graves is a Sauvignon BlancSmillon blend off the estate's distinctive limestone and red sand terroir, barrel fermented for texture a wine that helped define the modern style of dry white