Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 PURYEARSALE Jurassic Park earned its name

Jurassic Park earned its name honestly: planted in the late 1970s on sandy

on the palate

The 2022 is already approachable but has the structure to reward a few years in the cellar

offering lively pear and melon flavors and a refreshingly bitter touch of orange pith

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 PURYEARSALE Jurassic Park earned its nameTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,