2024 Domaine Bachelet-Monnot Clos de la Boutiere, Maranges Premier Cru, France Domaine Karydas 2017 Pax Buddha's Dharma Chenin

2017 Pax Buddha's Dharma Chenin Blanc

in a simple highball or refreshing cocktail

Édouard and Victor Carré—fourth-generation vignerons—farm a total of 21 hectares of organic vines across Champagne and the Côte des Bars

and this wine consistently offers a pronounced earthiness and a powerful sense of structure

All grapes come from bush vineyards

2024 Domaine Bachelet-Monnot Clos de la Boutiere, Maranges Premier Cru, France Domaine Karydas 2017 Pax Buddha's Dharma CheninSourced from ~1 ha of 5565yearold Pinot Noir vines in the walled Clos de la Boutire climat on clay limestone soils. Hand harvested and vinified with native yeasts, the wine sees ~30% whole clusters, gentle pigeage, and ~15 days maceration. Its aged 18 months in French oak (25% new) and bottled unfined and unfiltered.