Brasserie des Voirons Chenin Blanc 2024 SPRHONE The diverse blend creates a

The diverse blend creates a wine of remarkable texture and complexity

and that was that

Complex with dark fruit notes

Second wines from good estates in great vintages remain one of the few honest ways to drink mature Bordeaux without a fight

Brasserie des Voirons Chenin Blanc 2024 SPRHONE The diverse blend creates aYes, it says Chenin Blanc. No, it isn't wine. Brasserie des Voirons brews in the Haute Savoie hills above Lake Geneva, and their "vigneronne" series is the strangest and best thing they do: spontaneously fermented beer aged for months in old barrels on the grapes and lees of winemaker friends. Chenin turns up with its usual bag of tricks quince, orchard fruit, beeswax, a lick of honey but wrapped around a beer's grain and body, with a wild yeast tang