Ormiale 2021 Red wine across seven and a half

across seven and a half hectares of Triassic red marne

Fusain is Merlot from a single parcel of roughly sixty-year-old vines on a north-facing slope where the limestone comes to the surface

and the wine spends at least eighteen months in barrel before bottling

which means oxidative and dry rather than sweet

it asks nothing of you but a glass

Ormiale 2021 Red wine across seven and a halfFabrice Domercq is an artist from Paris. Jasper Morrison is an industrial designer from London. They have run Ormiale together since 2007, now based in the heart of Saint milion, farming Demeter certified vines and working the way almost nobody in Bordeaux works. Their stated principle is that the hand should stay present at every stage, and that technology gets replaced by touch, time and terroir. Grapes are destemmed by hand, nothing is added, and