Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 PURYEARSALE Frédéric and David Giachino farm

Frédéric and David Giachino farm 15 hectares in Savoie under full organic and biodynamic certification

The 2022 is already approachable but has the structure to reward a few years in the cellar

The fruit is trucked back to the Santa Cruz winery and made exactly like the estate wine: pressed whole-cluster

Delicious grapes

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 PURYEARSALE Frédéric and David Giachino farmTwo 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,