Domaine Diochon, Moulin-a-Vent Cuvee Vieilles Vignes, 2011 Reasonable_Cellar_2022 electric and endlessly drinkable

electric and endlessly drinkable

of the legendary Domaine Michel Lafarge

with all the mineral lift Priorat is famous for

with Montee de Tonnerre next door playing the tense

more mineral Pinot Noir than the richer crus on the slope below it

Domaine Diochon, Moulin-a-Vent Cuvee Vieilles Vignes, 2011 Reasonable_Cellar_2022 electric and endlessly drinkableFifteen years on, this is the argument for Moulin Vent as the most serious of the Beaujolais crus. Diochon's Vieilles Vignes comes from vines planted between 1920 and the 1960s on pink granite and sandstone over a manganese rich subsoil, vinified traditionally with whole clusters in concrete, given only a minute dose of sulfur and bottled unfined and unfiltered. Bernard Diochon, who took over from his father in 1967, chose Thomas Patentre as his