2020 Monument Wine Company, French Lessons Applegate Valley, Oregon Jouan Nicole Deriaux’s gold-standard Crémant du

Nicole Deriaux’s gold-standard Crémant du Jura is always from a single vintage (though it is labeled non-vintage)

melting away in a sea of crushed stones

Mostly Marzemino with some white grapes

Unfiltered and lightly sulfured before bottling

Le Preyna is the name of an old parcel planted with 75% cinsault and 25% grenache in deep granitic soils

2020 Monument Wine Company, French Lessons Applegate Valley, Oregon Jouan Nicole Deriaux’s gold-standard Crémant dua 60 40 blend of chardnonay from layne vineyard and sauvignon blanc from iron bird vineayrd tow higher altitude sites down the block from one another in the applegate valley of southern oregon. grapes were hand harvest and then crushed, sitting on the skins for 36 hours before being pressred. half of the wine co fermented in stainless stell and the rest co fermented in neutral barrel; malo was alloed to finish and the wine was left to rest with no