Borto 2019 Vin Jaune Chalky and salt-washed

Chalky and salt-washed

With enough presence for meaty dishes and enough vivacity for casual drinking

which makes this quietly a wine with three generations of Petit in the glass

at La Pommeraye on the Mauges side of the Loire

Borto 2019 Vin Jaune Chalky and salt-washedBorto is the odd one at Ormiale, and deliberately so. Fabrice Domercq and Jasper Morrison introduced it as a micro cuve in 2018: half Cabernet Franc, half Merlot, destemmed by hand and raised in a rancio sec style, which means oxidative and dry rather than sweet. It runs to sixteen percent and still manages to taste crisp, which is the whole trick of it. Walnut and dried fig, orange peel, a spiced savoury depth and a finish that carries well past the