Domaine Ciringa Fosilni Breg Sauvignon Blanc 2023 Reasonable Cellar in the hills between Lyon

in the hills between Lyon and the northern Rhone

2000 was a benchmark vintage and du Tertre delivered handsomely

grown in the rocky soils beneath the jagged Dentelles de Montmirail

Fresh and compelling

Domaine Ciringa Fosilni Breg Sauvignon Blanc 2023 Reasonable Cellar in the hills between LyonArmin 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