Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling x Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 JULY4 and farm marl soils with

and farm marl soils with minimal intervention

Arriving soon: the Pillots' largest and most emblematic Premier Cru vineyard

Eighteen months in French oak

As with all of Byron's wines

These have become "baby unicorns

Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling x Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 JULY4 and farm marl soils withRiesling x Sylvaner is the Swiss name for Muller Thurgau, a grape with a deservedly grim reputation earned during its long career as Germany's bulk workhorse. Then you drink one from old vines farmed biodynamically at 800 plus meters on a granite ledge in the Valais, and the reputation starts to look unfair. Domaine de Beudon sits above Fully on a mountainside so steep that the only ways up are a private cable car or a three hour hike along a rope