Črnko Skin Contact Muscat Slovenia 2022 [1L]

Črnko Skin Contact Muscat Slovenia 2022 [1L]The gently rolling slopes surrounding rnko Winery, just south of the Austrian border, grow in a region formerly known as Lower Styria (once part of the Austro Hungarian Empire.) Theres more than a thousand years of viticultural history in the area, which was also a favorite of Hapsburg Archduke Johann of Austria so much so, in fact, that he founded a vineyard credited for introducing Western European grape varieties to Slovenia. This 100% Muscat sees

There is a nice brambly

and dangerously gulpable

I've always had a soft-spot for wines from Pic Saint-Loup

Francois Chidaine has been producing brilliant wines for past 30 years

Made in stainless steel with indigenous yeasts and low sulfur

limestone soils around Minervois in the Languedoc region

like sundried tomatoes and fresh cured salami

It's sourced from granitic soils in the Connor and Hodge vineyards in southern Oregon's Applegate Valley

crispy mushrooms

This makes for a light

amongst others - from vines ranging from 60 to 100 years old

His work is focused in the Bio Bio Valley