Ormiale, "Borto" 2019

Aperitif/Digestif/Dessert Wine? 50% Merlot, 50% Cabernet Franc including some pressed juices. Grapes are hand-harvested, manually destemmed and spontaneously ferment in old oak foudre. Aged for 18 months in 500L barrel then another 2 year sin stainless steel vat prior to bottling unfined, unfiltered, no additional SO2. 

From the winemaker: 
"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. 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.”