Lise & Bertrand Jousset ‘Éxilé’ Rosé Pétillant 2024 Gifts

Lise & Bertrand Jousset ‘Éxilé’ Rosé Pétillant 2024 GiftsLuscious, with strawberries and cream, grapefruit mousse, and pavlova finish. Off dry, but not sweet per se, its just a joyful example of how pt nats can be made with purity and pleasure instead of funk, loads of sediment, or imperfection. The Jousset family is one of the Loires best at the style. Pair with your first days of light after a long winters polar vortex, or if you just need a more portable, grown up version of Vitamin D to cheer you up

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An old-school producer of Pinot Noir in the Willamette Valley founded in the 1980’s

" or "Pirate Bubbles

Aged in stainless steel tanks

The Grenache Gris is whole-cluster direct pressed

The Irish Coffee mug gets a modern update

but this slightly more elevated selection of their best Cab Franc vines across their holdings absolutely shows the quality jump

The current release of Taittinger’s non-vintage Brut 'la Française' is made up of 40% Chardonnay

this bottling from the much smaller

and roasted sweet potato

she also shows us how she thinks of a meal

Pinot Noir meets native Teutonic varieties Dornfelder and Portugieser—adding spice and a dark streak to the red fruit of the Pinot