Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling and Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020
Riesling x Sylvaner is the Swiss name for Muller-Thurgau, a grape with a deservedly grim reputation earned during its long career as Germany's bulk workhorse. Then you drink one from old vines farmed biodynamically at 800-plus meters on a granite ledge in the Valais, and the reputation starts to look unfair. Domaine de Beudon sits above Fully on a mountainside so steep that the only ways up are a private cable car or a three-hour hike along a rope-assisted path. The whites are pressed up on the mountain and the juice piped down the slope to the cellar, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in steel and bottled with no fining and no filtration. Old vines, hard-won altitude, and a grape nobody takes seriously, which is exactly why this is such a pleasure to pour for people.
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Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling and Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020
Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling and Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020
Riesling x Sylvaner is the Swiss name for Muller-Thurgau, a grape with a deservedly grim reputation earned during its long career as Germany's bulk workhorse. Then you drink one from old vines farmed biodynamically at 800-plus meters on a granite ledge in the Valais, and the reputation starts to look unfair. Domaine de Beudon sits above Fully on a mountainside so steep that the only ways up are a private cable car or a three-hour hike along a rope-assisted path. The whites are pressed up on the mountain and the juice piped down the slope to the cellar, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in steel and bottled with no fining and no filtration. Old vines, hard-won altitude, and a grape nobody takes seriously, which is exactly why this is such a pleasure to pour for people.
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Riesling x Sylvaner is the Swiss name for Muller-Thurgau, a grape with a deservedly grim reputation earned during its long career as Germany's bulk workhorse. Then you drink one from old vines farmed biodynamically at 800-plus meters on a granite ledge in the Valais, and the reputation starts to look unfair. Domaine de Beudon sits above Fully on a mountainside so steep that the only ways up are a private cable car or a three-hour hike along a rope-assisted path. The whites are pressed up on the mountain and the juice piped down the slope to the cellar, then fermented with indigenous yeasts in steel and bottled with no fining and no filtration. Old vines, hard-won altitude, and a grape nobody takes seriously, which is exactly why this is such a pleasure to pour for people.
