Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 MENU butterscotch laden aroma and vanilla

butterscotch laden aroma and vanilla rich mouthfeel

The kind of bottle that quietly becomes your house white

in the village of Celles-sur-Ource

Tiago Sampaio is one of the most interesting voices in the Douro right now

revealing an aromatic profile of ripe blackberries

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 MENU butterscotch laden aroma and vanillaTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,