Domaine des Seailles "Cubik" Merlot 2022

Domaine des Seailles "Cubik" Merlot 2022Direct Press Selection April 2025 [PRESS 4 MIX PRESS 4 RED] Merlot is possibly THE quintessential misunderstood grape, demonized in the 2004 movie Sideways when Paul Giamattis character, Miles, famously screams that he will NOT drink any f****** Merlot outside a Napa Valley restaurant. Even today, people still use the Sideways effect to explain a measurable decline in demand for the grape after the movie was released. I recommend Slates Decoder Ring

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complexity and balance found in opulent white Burgundy’s and vin jaune or oxidative Jura white wines

Unfiltered and unsulfured

The "Les Granges" is from their younger vines

unlike the rocky

Notes from the winemakers: "A single-vineyard Pinot Blanc from steep slopes

The families that made wine began to sell the grapes to the large wineries to lower production costs—but this began a continuous decline in the quality of the wines

this drinks more like a light red than a rose

The Gevrey-Chambertin by Jean-Claude Rateau is from two small parcels in "Aux Etelois" (below Grand Cru Griottes)  and "les Epointures" (below 1er Cru Clos Prieur) on the more fine and aromatic side of Gevrey

our exercise in restraint and our white wine paradox

there has never been much of a cohesive style that binds the region together - considering the region is 27

Pinot Gris