La Manufacture Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons Vieilles Vignes 2021 Jura and Savoie This is deliciously pushing the

This is deliciously pushing the boundaries of what Irish whiskey is and can be

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' which is more or less what Etienne Calsac pulled off in 2010: at 26 he took back his grandparents' three hectares around Avize

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La Manufacture Chablis 1er Cru Vaillons Vieilles Vignes 2021 Jura and Savoie This is deliciously pushing theBenjamin Laroche grew up inside one of Chablis's biggest names. La Manufacture is what he does on his own terms: no estate vineyards, no legacy to protect, just parcels sourced from growers he trusts and chosen for precision. Vaillons is one of the great left bank premier crus, and these are old vines within it the kind that push deep into Kimmeridgian limestone and deliver the flinty, saline drive the site is famous for. The 2021 was a cool, honest