Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 agrapart ripe dark fruit

ripe dark fruit

high in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley

the goal was to create an affordable everyday bourbon that had that unique and unmistakable Smoke Wagon flavor

From a historic slope overlooking Monte Amiata

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 agrapart ripe dark fruitTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,