Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 CM10 sherry-like notes imparted by house-made

sherry-like notes imparted by house-made umeshu finishing casks

with an acid line that drives rather than cuts

this Extra Brut is a must-have for lovers of taut

Granite gives this one a lift and crunch you won't find in the clay-and-limestone Cab Francs further upriver: lighter

Domaine Bersan Saint-Bris 2022 CM10 sherry-like notes imparted by house-madeSaint Bris is Burgundy's oddball: the only appellation in the entire region planted to Sauvignon Blanc, a grape everyone else files under Loire or New Zealand. Grown here on the same Kimmeridgian limestone that makes Chablis what it is, Sauvignon behaves differently, turning steely and linear and saline instead of tropical, with a gravity that seems to come only from northern limestone. The Bersan family has roots in this corner of the Auxerrois going