Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 Farmed without herbicides

Farmed without herbicides

and 'Funsu' is the Piemontese dialect nickname of Alfonso Ferrio

drawn from 160 barrels across multiple rickhouses

She works alone

we are afforded the opportunity to farm and produce Chardonnay from some of the most unique coastal locations in California

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 Farmed without herbicidesTwo 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,