Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 CM10 this Extra Brut is a

this Extra Brut is a must-have for lovers of taut

sherry-like notes imparted by house-made umeshu finishing casks

Granite gives this one a lift and crunch you won't find in the clay-and-limestone Cab Francs further upriver: lighter

aged in cask

It takes 15 kg of apricots to produce one liter of this elegant distillate

Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 CM10 this Extra Brut is aSaint Bris is Burgundy's oddball: the only appellation in the entire region planted to Sauvignon Blanc, a grape everyone else files under Loire or New Zealand. Grown here on the same Kimmeridgian limestone that makes Chablis what it is, Sauvignon behaves differently, turning steely and linear and saline instead of tropical, with a gravity that seems to come only from northern limestone. The Bersan family has roots in this corner of the Auxerrois going