Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 CS20230906 and Le Colombier brings the

and Le Colombier brings the same southern Rhone sensibility at an everyday price

and citrus peel

and a delicate smokiness on the finish

no-new-oak approach that lets the place speak

Nocino is what happens when you pick walnuts too early on purpose

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 CS20230906 and Le Colombier brings theTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,