Domaine Philippe Tessier Cheverny Rouge Point du Jour 2023 tag Alicante Bouschet

Alicante Bouschet

This bottling comes off an old dry riverbed about 800 meters from the Bío Bío river

Barrel #15217

expressing notes of caramelized muscovado sugar

and graphite that make mature Pauillac so rewarding

Domaine Philippe Tessier Cheverny Rouge Point du Jour 2023 tag Alicante BouschetPoint du Jour comes from older plots on clay and limestone, a step up from the estate's regular Cheverny. Pinot Noir does most of the talking with Gamay in support, largely whole cluster fermented with a proper two week maceration, then aged in a jumble of barrels, demi muids and foudres before an unfiltered bottling with minimal sulfur. This is the serious end of Cheverny with none of the pomp: more depth and grip than the estate's regular red, but