Dard et Ribo, St-Joseph Rouge, 2024 certified organic. This half-bottle of the 1990

This half-bottle of the 1990 comes from a private collection and is now fully mature

gastronomic Côte de Beaune vintage

and the kind of warm

mineral-driven white wine when someone cares enough

Domaine du Meix Foulot has been farming Mercurey for more than two centuries

Dard et Ribo, St-Joseph Rouge, 2024 certified organic. This half-bottle of the 1990St Joseph sits across the river from Crozes, and the difference is written in the soil: this is Syrah grown on sandy granite and decomposed granite, which gives it a firmer, more mineral spine than Dard et Ribo's Crozes bottlings. It's the most structured and ageworthy of their reds, still made in the domaine's natural, unextracted, low sulfur style, so the power comes with lift rather than bulk. Expect savory, peppery Syrah with a granite driven cut