Clos Fornelli Minustellu Chiosu Rouge 2023 Author DK Lirac shares the same sun-baked

Lirac shares the same sun-baked

Collectors chase La Gerla's Vigna gli Angeli

and it is the tightest-wound of his three: where his granite sites give lift

most pour-it-cold expression

using neutral oak to emphasize site purity

Clos Fornelli Minustellu Chiosu Rouge 2023 Author DK Lirac shares the same sun-bakedMinustellu is another of Corsica's nearly forgotten native grapes, a red variety planted in tiny quantities on the island. Clos Fornelli, organically farmed by the Vanucci Couloumre family in the commune of Tallone on the eastern coast, gives it the unfussy treatment it deserves: hand harvest, native yeast fermentation, concrete aging. The fruit comes off very stony alluvial soils washed down from the Castagniccia schist massif, and you taste that