Sylvaine & Alain Normand Mâcon La Roche-Vineuse Etna grass cover throughout the vineyard

grass cover throughout the vineyard and green harvest practices all lend to limited yields and best quality fruit at harvest

but no Englishman created or discovered this wine (as happened in Marsala)

Three hundred years ago the Moris family moved from their native Spain to Italy’s Maremma

and the nose is chalky and intriguing

Sylvaine & Alain Normand Mâcon La Roche-Vineuse Etna grass cover throughout the vineyardMade in a distinctly artisan style with native yeast in vat and an extensive upbringing on its fine lees (that spicy zesty quality in the finish of the wine comes from this lees contact). Alain farms according to the pragmatic principles of lutte raisonne, or reasoned fight. He plows his vineyards rather than using herbicides, and he doesnt use pesticides or chemical fertilizers. His methods both in the field and in the cellar are the antithesis of