Domaine Ciringa Fosilni Breg Sauvignon Blanc 2023 Reasonable Cellar and Jean-Luc - the one

and Jean-Luc - the one who had spent his career out in the vineyards - walked away with half the vines and started over under his own name

The name comes from the greywacke stones in Marlborough's soils

and the 2021 Ca'Mia—their single-vineyard Barolo from seven-decade-old vines in Serralunga's Brea cru

2000 was a benchmark vintage and du Tertre delivered handsomely

Domaine Ciringa Fosilni Breg Sauvignon Blanc 2023 Reasonable Cellar and Jean-Luc - the oneArmin Tement likes to say that Sauvignon Blanc grown on this soil doesn't really taste like Sauvignon Blanc, and he is right. Fosilni Breg means fossil hill, and the vineyard is a steep, south facing wall of 60 million year old limestone reef, an ancient seabed with the Slovenia Austria border running straight through it. It is essentially the same rock as Chablis, just younger. The Tements farm it organically and biodynamically, ferment spontaneously