Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 PURYEARSALE offering lively pear and melon

offering lively pear and melon flavors and a refreshingly bitter touch of orange pith

Silky and sappy with a core of rich red and black fruits

Jurassic Park earned its name honestly: planted in the late 1970s on sandy

and graphite that make mature Pauillac so rewarding

Medium-bodied

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 PURYEARSALE offering lively pear and melonTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,