Clos Fornelli Minustellu Chiosu Rouge 2023 TBO orange blossoms

orange blossoms

This is a rare opportunity to taste with a third-generation winemaker whose family has quietly built a reputation for some of the most age-worthy and distinctive Champagnes in the region

it's built on restraint rather than richness

6 are indigenous to the wild Galician forests: bay leaf

Clos Fornelli Minustellu Chiosu Rouge 2023 TBO orange blossomsMinustellu is another of Corsica's nearly forgotten native grapes, a red variety planted in tiny quantities on the island. Clos Fornelli, organically farmed by the Vanucci Couloumre family in the commune of Tallone on the eastern coast, gives it the unfussy treatment it deserves: hand harvest, native yeast fermentation, concrete aging. The fruit comes off very stony alluvial soils washed down from the Castagniccia schist massif, and you taste that