Michel Gahier Arbois Blanc Chardonnay Les Crets 2023 EGLY24 Unlike many cherry beers that

Unlike many cherry beers that rely on extracts or syrups

which suits this style perfectly: ripe orchard fruit stretched over bracing acidity

The new wine is raised primarily in steel with some in wood

a century-old estate based in the Jura village of L'Etoile (so named for the prodigious amount of star-shaped fossils in the soils

Now mature and drinking beautifully

Michel Gahier Arbois Blanc Chardonnay Les Crets 2023 EGLY24 Unlike many cherry beers thatJura Chardonnay raised 'sous voile'under a protective veil of yeaston white marl soils. Michel Gahier (family in Montigny ls Arsures since 1525, biodynamic, certified Nature & Progrs) presses directly into foudre without winter topping, allowing the wine to develop complex oxidative character naturally. Les Crts' 45 year old vines on 'marnes blanches' (white marl) produce a distinctly mineral expression. Zero sulfur added since the mid 1990s. If you