Cuvée 1966 Magnum 2022 Franconia older vines on granite with

older vines on granite with good exposure

Les Vianderies is one of the parcels Jean-Michel and Laurence Petit work inside Arbois-Pupillin

and Recerca followed in 2018

it has softened at the edges without losing the line

with the crunch of fresh fruit and none of the sweetness cooked out of it

Cuvée 1966 Magnum 2022 Franconia older vines on granite withThe vines behind Cuve 1966 were planted that year by Jean Michel's father, the same vines he once sold off to the cooperative without knowing what they might become. Now Jean Michel's son Lo tends and vinifies them, which makes this quietly a wine with three generations of Petit in the glass. Old vine Chardonnay from Pupillin's limestone rich soils, aged in wood, rich and precise in equal measure: a creamy depth held in check by real mineral tension.