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The new wines leave the winery with a new micro cuvée for 2018, Borto.

 

Still two to three months to wait before the new Ormiale wines are available.

 

Ormiale 2017, 100% Merlot. Bottled by gravity with a nozzle filler. No inputs, or sulphites added. An Ormiale with a lot of tension and fruit. A vintage that might be divisive. One will have to choose their camp once and for all: a wine that is alive without flaws, or a lifeless wine? We’ve made up our mind ages ago and this 2017 wonderfully exemplifies our choice. Mauro helped us a lot on this vintage. Already…

 

James 2018, 70% Merlot and 30% Cabernet Sauvignon. The first bottles we disgorged have more than 28 months of ageing on lees. No inputs or sulphites added. If James 2017 “wasn’t bad”, James 2018 is better than “not bad”… Very dry, and finely, abundantly and persistently effervescent. Copper coloured. Saline and “white almond” finale.

 

The newcomer: Borto. A new micro cuvée. 100% press wine and 100% Merlot. Global warming is no joke, and the vines impressively bear witness to this change. Borto – does the name right a bell? – is an aperitif and/or dessert wine. Alcohol and residual sugars. No inputs or sulphites. Bottled by gravity with a nozzle filler. Tremendously gastronomical and ready to provide bewildering food and wine pairings, Borto is crisp despite its alcohol, complex, spicy, disconcerting. Because of its incredible “stability”, it does not fear three weeks of opening if kept as it should. When the juice “decides”, wine always reminds us that it is generous and alive. And unique.