Les Horees Coteaux Bourguignons Mon Poulain 2024 051826OFFER and Lynch-Bages excelled

and Lynch-Bages excelled

The nose of this "garage" wine expresses black cherries

Pour it cold and don't overthink it

value-packed southern red with a mineral streak from the schist

half in foudre for softness — a smart split that gives it more flesh than most

Les Horees Coteaux Bourguignons Mon Poulain 2024 051826OFFER and Lynch-Bages excelledThere is Gamay growing in Pommard, planted back in the 1940s, and Catharina Sadde farms it. That is the sort of detail that makes Coteaux Bourguignons, Burgundy's humble catch all appellation, far more interesting than it has any right to be. Mon Poulain blends that Gamay, about 40% of the wine, with Pinot Noir from the Cote de Beaune, the two fermented separately: the Gamay whole cluster, the Pinot half, both on wild yeast with no sulfur until after