Verget Macon-Fuisse Les Chataigniers 2024 champagne-club Westward starts where most distilleries

Westward starts where most distilleries don't: by brewing a full American ale from scratch

and Graciano

this Pinot Blanc arrives with floral aromatics and the mineral energy that only slate can provide

the wine remains a compelling study of how great Cabernet ages with grace and complexity

2021 was the longest spring in memory

Verget Macon-Fuisse Les Chataigniers 2024 champagne-club Westward starts where most distilleriesJean Marie Guffens is the Belgian who shook up the Maconnais. He founded Verget in 1990 in Sologny on a radical premise for the time: buy grapes, not finished wine, and vinify everything yourself in one cellar under one set of rules. Since 2016 the house has been run by Julien Desplans, an oenologist who earned his stripes at Chateau Palmer and Domaine de la Romanee Conti. Les Chataigniers comes from limestone parcels in the upper reaches of Fuisse,