Celine et Vincent Dureuil (Dureuil-Janthial), Mercurey Rouge, 2023 limestone tasting and toasted oak

and toasted oak

age-worthy

winter melon

The tannins are light and well-integrated

and Catarratto on terra rossa

Celine et Vincent Dureuil (Dureuil-Janthial), Mercurey Rouge, 2023 limestone tasting and toasted oakMercurey sits just next door to Rully, and a Dureuil Janthial Mercurey gives you a glimpse of the slightly bigger, slightly more structured side of the Cte Chalonnaise from one of the appellation's reference producers. Cline and Vincent farm organically across roughly twenty hectares, working by hand and reading the lunar calendar, and the wines feel like it: precise, transparent, and built around the fruit rather than around the cellar. The 2023