Domaine Lionnet Saint-Joseph Blanc 'Pierre Blanche' 2023

Pure Roussanne is aged partly in terracotta jars and partly in a single three-year-old 228-liter barrel. This micro-cuvée from vines planted in 2014 offers intense minerality beneath its overlay of exotic almond-inflected apricot fruit, with a lip-smacking pulpy texture and a vivid overall sense of purity. One feels the influence of the Châteaubourg vineyard’s limestone soils in the wine’s directness of line and mineral elegance.