Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Consignment Because Pauillac AOC permits only

Because Pauillac AOC permits only reds

The wine is fermented and aged in steel

and ripe fruit in seamless conversation

This Baga was hand-harvested and fermented the old-fashioned way—four weeks in open lagares with foot-treading

Fermented with wild yeasts

Domaine Genot-Boulanger Mercurey 1er Cru En Sazenay 2015 Consignment Because Pauillac AOC permits onlyGnot Boulanger is the kind of producer Burgundy insiders trade tips about and the rest of the wine world hasn't caught up to yet. Aude and Guillaume Lavolle farm organically with biodynamic touches, work each site with a horse drawn plough, and keep new oak at 15% or less. Mercurey is where the story started, when Aude's ancestor Charles Henri Gnot broke a 20 generation pharmacist family chain to buy vines here in 1974, and the En Sazenay 1er Cru is