Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 CM10 just bright and direct fruit

just bright and direct fruit

Granite gives this one a lift and crunch you won't find in the clay-and-limestone Cab Francs further upriver: lighter

It takes 15 kg of apricots to produce one liter of this elegant distillate

sherry-like notes imparted by house-made umeshu finishing casks

The only additions are sugar

Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 CM10 just bright and direct fruitSaint Bris is Burgundy's oddball: the only appellation in the entire region planted to Sauvignon Blanc, a grape everyone else files under Loire or New Zealand. Grown here on the same Kimmeridgian limestone that makes Chablis what it is, Sauvignon behaves differently, turning steely and linear and saline instead of tropical, with a gravity that seems to come only from northern limestone. The Bersan family has roots in this corner of the Auxerrois going