Clos Fornelli Minustellu Chiosu Rouge 2023 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 from the family that runs

from the family that runs Etablissements Jean-Pierre Moueix in Libourne

aromas of warm honey and a soft wheat profile with notes of toasted pretzels

The fruit & spice aroma gives undertones of cherries and wild strawberries

Filipa Pato grew up in the middle of it and has built her own reputation there

Clos Fornelli Minustellu Chiosu Rouge 2023 Domaine Michel Gros 2022 from the family that runsMinustellu 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