Borto 2019 Domaine Houillon draws the labels and looks

draws the labels and looks after the horse and the sheep that work alongside them

Chaponnieres is white Burgundy made the way he makes everything: native yeasts

sometimes to nothing

From organically farmed vineyards in Eckelsheim

In the bottle today

Borto 2019 Domaine Houillon draws the labels and looksBorto is the odd one at Ormiale, and deliberately so. Fabrice Domercq and Jasper Morrison introduced it as a micro cuve in 2018: half Cabernet Franc, half Merlot, destemmed by hand and raised in a rancio sec style, which means oxidative and dry rather than sweet. It runs to sixteen percent and still manages to taste crisp, which is the whole trick of it. Walnut and dried fig, orange peel, a spiced savoury depth and a finish that carries well past the