Jean-Baptiste Souillard Marsanne 2024

Jean-Baptiste knew what he wanted to do from a young age. He watched his father run the region's largest cooperative, then stacked up six wine diplomas, then went to work for Château Latour in Bordeaux and Comte Armand in Pommard alongside Benjamin Leroux. The Burgundy years changed him. Watching how individual parcels could speak for themselves, marked his winemaking style. So he started his own tiny négocé operation with a simple rule: one parcel, one wine. The Cistercian method, he calls it. 

This Marsanne comes from north-facing Languedoc, from Southern Rhône parcels of clay and limestone. Fermented with indigenous yeasts for one to two months, 100% malolactic, aged for a year in old, neutral oak.

Green apple, orange blossom, rosewater. A nice creamy palate that doesn't try too hard. So yum.