2023 Domaine Ray-Jane Bandol Blanc

90% Clairette, 10% Ugni Blanc, all estate grown and biodynamically farmed from 60 year old vines on limestone and clay soils. On Le Plan du Castellet—the plateau above the village of Bandol, where Ray-Jane’s vineyards are located—you’re never more than a few miles from the Mediterranean. Hand harvested, fermented with native yeasts and aged entirely in stainless steel. 12.5% alcohol. This rare Bandol Blanc  shows an aromatic nose of crunchy and floral white fruit and green apple and classic Provençal garrigue notes. . Light to medium in body but very powerful in the mouth. Dry, elegant, mineral driven and long. Ray-Jane’s family has been farming the same hillside, and making wine in the same underground cellar, since 1288; maybe 734 years of practice makes perfect!