2024 Louis Billard Chambolle-Musigny, Cote de Nuits, France Veronica Ortega Half of the grapes were

Half of the grapes were fermented whole-bunch carbonic for three weeks and the other half fermented entirely whole-cluster but open top with gentle hand plunging for roughly a week

(Its highly unorthodox nature

ambient malolactic was slow and never fully completed

fermented in a combination of stainless steel and ceramic

2024 Louis Billard Chambolle-Musigny, Cote de Nuits, France Veronica Ortega Half of the grapes wereFrom limestone heavy mid slope parcels, the wine is cold soaked five days and native fermented 14 days with early pump overs and light punch downs, at 80% whole clusters, then aged 14 months in barrel (30% new) and 2 months stainless, lenticularly filtered slowly, and bottled at ~15 mg L free SO (~900 bottles)