Ermes Pavese Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle 2024 CS20231026 From the distillery: Made using

From the distillery: Made using 100% blue agave aged in prized red wine barrels for 3 years

From the importer: A deeply aromatic agave spirit with highly visible ‘legs’ that are left on the inside of a sipping glass when tasting the mezcal

and an almost Medoc-like tannic architecture

The approach in the cellar is old-school Côte de Beaune: destemmed

The wine ferments spontaneously in shallow cement vessels with whole-cluster grapes trodden by foot

Ermes Pavese Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle 2024 CS20231026 From the distillery: Made usingNobody farms vines at 4,000 feet under Mont Blanc unless they're a little stubborn. Ermes Pavese does, working the native Pri Blanc on some of the highest vineyards in Europe, trained low on traditional pergolas so the vines can soak up what warmth the stones give back at night. The altitude and isolation kept phylloxera out entirely, so these vines still grow on their own roots a living link to Europe before the vine plague. The wine is exactly what