Domaine Labranche Laffont Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Sec 2023 campania The winds and ocean mist

The winds and ocean mist that permeate the vineyards and the winery on the island of Pico find their way into each bottle

who never succumbed to the mid-century fashion of diluting their wines with more marketable international grapes

Italy has made an entire civilization out of that single concept

with tannins that build slowly on the finish alongside earthy base notes

orange and cranberry

Domaine Labranche Laffont Pacherenc du Vic Bilh Sec 2023 campania The winds and ocean mistThe first thing you learn when visiting southwest France is that its not quite French. Walk into a caf out in the country, you might hear Occitan, a language roughly equidistant between French and Catalan. Look at a road sign, and you will instantly get lost, because place names in this part of France look like theyre written in Celtic. However, wine is an international language, and in Pacherenc, growers use Gros and Petit Manseng to make pure magic