Aligoté & Gamay, Burgundy, France 

RARE, berried and positively brilliant, please meet the most alluring Burgundian BLOUGE around! Tomoko Kuriyama and Guillaume Bott are the pair behind the forever-culty winery Chanterêves, in Savigny-lès-Beaune. Working with a mix of estate and purchased fruit, the pair believe in organic farming, biodynamics, phytotherapy & terroir-driven expressions driven by their chunky limestone plots. FUN FACT! The majority of their vineyards are horse-plowed by Gilbert Simond, the Côte’s most coveted horse-plower (what a title!) with the soils tilled from mid-April to mid-July only, and no tilling for the other eight months of the year to keep soils at their best. ‘Blue Cerise’ is a 50/50 blend of fruity, floral gamay from vines located below the village of Fussey, and estate-grown, mineral, tart aligoté. The gamay was added whole cluster to direct pressed aligoté juice for a tea-steeping-esque process often referred to as trempette style, and rested for 12 months in old oak barrels to join together fully and forever. A symphony of flowers, cherry filling with sweet baking spice, wild strawberries, green plum, whole lemon tartness, chamomile extract bitters & fuzzy overripe peach. Enjoy alongside asparagus, nettle pasta and fiddleheads.