Fusain 2018 Yunnan deep into autumn

deep into autumn

and in Sébastien Bobinet and Émeline Calvez's hands it becomes something wonderfully fresh

with the tannins worn smooth

sun-rich growing season that encouraged aromatic intensity without losing freshness

Fusain 2018 Yunnan deep into autumnGrgoire and Ccile Rousseau started at Carsac de Gurson in 2006, in the northwest corner of the Bergerac country, and farm five hectares organically. Fusain is Merlot from a single parcel of roughly sixty year old vines on a north facing slope where the limestone comes to the surface, and they only make it in the years that earn it. The name means charcoal, which turns out to be fair warning. There is graphite here alongside dark fruit, black pepper