Domaine Danjou-Banessy Les Myrs 2023 Old Rioja 30% Sauvignon Blanc

30% Sauvignon Blanc

each heavily toasted European oak Oloroso sherry butt will yield no more than 800 bottles of Scotch whisky

Fruit for this wine comes from vines planted in 1988 in light-colored clay with limestone soil with small white rocks

Fifteen months in barrique leaves it polished but lively

Domaine Danjou-Banessy Les Myrs 2023 Old Rioja 30% Sauvignon BlancBrothers Sebastien and Benoit Danjou farm one of the standout addresses in Roussillon's Agly Valley (the estate is based in Espira de l'Agly), working biodynamically with old vines on dramatic limestone and schist terroirs. Les Myrs is their single vineyard old vine Carignan, made in their reductive, low intervention style to preserve freshness and tension a long way from the jammy, alcoholic Roussillon cliche. The 2023 is elegant and aromatic, with