12,5% abv. Wonderful elegance and purity with lovely ripe citrus and mineral aromas. Not so much a steely or rocky style but a fruit driven one - but certainly not a sweet/ripe/sugary style. Crunchy, citric, palate-cleansing, bracing and pure. Awesome and far more characterful than most I have experienced from the region. Alongside J-P Brun's white Beaujolais this is the wine that has made me interested in non-fizzy Chardonnay.
But Thomas Pico has a reputation for not only being an exciting young producer but of being extreme in his anti-science wine making, aging the wines partly in cement eggs for some biodynamic reason or other.
I like science. I think the sciences are tremendously exciting and far more awe-inspiring than any myths humans have created. But I can't help wondering why so many of the wines I most love are marketed with such anti-science bullshit as concrete eggs and biodynamics. Surely there has to be a better reason than such anti-science ideologies for why I love them? Correlation, after all, does not necessarily imply causation.
