Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 drawn from 160 barrels across

drawn from 160 barrels across multiple rickhouses

and food-friendly to its core

A broodingly backward giant at full maturity: this 3

and made Saint-Cyr the largest organic domaine in Beaujolais

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 2025 L'Assemblage Part 1 drawn from 160 barrels acrossTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,