Break Neck Creek is a vineyard the team has worked with for years and treats almost like a varietal grand cru — Riesling planted on Lansing and Conesus gravelly silt loam on Seneca Lake's east side
Benoît Courault is one of the Loire's most respected natural winemakers
and aged ten to twelve months on the lees in 228 and 400-liter barrels
The fruit comes from massale-selected vines partway up the hill at Chavot
Needs time—drink from 2027 onward
Les Faverelles, Le Nez de Muse Vezelay White, 2023 so081925 albamar offer Break Neck Creek is aLes Faverelles is a small organic estate in Vezelay, the far northern outpost of Burgundy run by Patrick and Isabelle, who traded a Paris bookshop for the vines. Le Nez de Muse is their fresh, unoaked Chardonnay, fermented and aged in steel to keep all the cool climate cut and clarity intact. Patrick refuses to chaptalize, so these wines come in light, bright and brisk, true to Vezelay's slow ripening terroir. This is white Burgundy that prizes energy