Ermes Pavese Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle 2024 CS20231031 and drinking beautifully right now

and drinking beautifully right now

using six-row Indian barley smoked with imported Scottish peat to approximately 25 ppm

took over his grandfather's four hectares of high-altitude clay and limestone (a good chunk of it Grand Cru Eichberg)

This is the first cognac ever to be gone trough the limited handcrafted process of 'Rarified Cognac System'

Ermes Pavese Blanc de Morgex et de La Salle 2024 CS20231031 and drinking beautifully right nowNobody farms vines at 4,000 feet under Mont Blanc unless they're a little stubborn. Ermes Pavese does, working the native Pri Blanc on some of the highest vineyards in Europe, trained low on traditional pergolas so the vines can soak up what warmth the stones give back at night. The altitude and isolation kept phylloxera out entirely, so these vines still grow on their own roots a living link to Europe before the vine plague. The wine is exactly what