Les Horees Coteaux Bourguignons Gamay Au Plus Pres 2025 SCCOS What's left is Champagne stripped

What's left is Champagne stripped back to its frame: chalk

Amarone starts with patience: after harvest the grapes are laid out on traditional bamboo racks and left to dry for around 100 days

Just skip the salt-and-slam routine — it's better than that

and a clear mineral pulse from the high-altitude chalk

part of it planted to vines more than eighty years old

Les Horees Coteaux Bourguignons Gamay Au Plus Pres 2025 SCCOS What's left is Champagne strippedIn 1395 the Duke of Burgundy banned Gamay from the Cote d'Or, calling it a disloyal plant. Six centuries later it is quietly creeping back, and Catharina Sadde of Les Horees is one of the reasons why. Au Plus Pres is her glou glou bottling: organically grown Gamay bought from the Maconnais, fermented entirely whole cluster with about a week on the skins, then six months in barrel. That is the whole recipe. The name translates roughly as 'as close as