Château Haut-Grelot

Blaye Côtes de Bordeaux AOC Boir Pour Voir Sauvignon Gris (Orange)

An avant-garde Sauvignon Gris, the 'Boir Pour Voir'—Drink to See—is an orange wine with the most gorgeous hue and from one of the finest varieties to be underrepresented in Bordeaux and often found only in its fringe appellations (like Blaye!). Sauvignon Gris is of course the pinkish-grey mutation and it gives not only colour to the wine, but its plusher nature is so well suited to this style. The nose is free of flaws with a juicy tropicality of cantaloupe, fresh herbs, orange marmalade, soursop, and most exciting of all: yellow pepper, a wonderful surprise obviously owing to Sauv Blanc’s famously nuclear payload of pyrazines. This is easily among the most exciting orange wines I’ve tasted in years. It spends one month in a wooden vat after being foot tread. It was then pressed and racked half to classic Bordeaux French oak barriques and half to Amphora for a three month élevage.