Domaine Ciringa Desertno Vino Sauvignon Blanc 2017 (375ml) CS20230516 with real sherry character underneath

with real sherry character underneath the bitterness

and Brancellao from nearly 200 micro-plots of decomposed granite soils in Arnoia

A bottle this mature is about delicacy and history

Domaine Laporte is a long-established

Domaine Ciringa Desertno Vino Sauvignon Blanc 2017 (375ml) CS20230516 with real sherry character underneathBotrytized Sauvignon Blanc from a 60 million year old limestone reef straddling the Slovenian Austrian border is not a sentence you get to write often. Domaine Ciringa is the Slovenian arm of the Tement family, whose famous Zieregg vineyard runs right across the frontier; Ciringa is simply the Slovenian name for the same hill. In vintages when noble rot cooperates, they make this: roughly 20% botrytized fruit, fermented in cask, landing near 75 grams