Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling x Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 CACOFFER Rich with a texture like

Rich with a texture like sweet cream and notes of milk chocolate

In 2011 he took on this single plot in Nuits-Saint-Georges and made just over a thousand bottles in a friend's cellar

sweet and bitter orange

buttery on the palate with a tense minerality

and the umami complexity that comes only with age

Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling x Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 CACOFFER Rich with a texture likeRiesling x Sylvaner is the Swiss name for Muller Thurgau, a grape with a deservedly grim reputation earned during its long career as Germany's bulk workhorse. Then you drink one from old vines farmed biodynamically at 800 plus meters on a granite ledge in the Valais, and the reputation starts to look unfair. Domaine de Beudon sits above Fully on a mountainside so steep that the only ways up are a private cable car or a three hour hike along a rope