Monthélie Les Crays, 2022

Only 10.5% alcohol. Village Burgundy from a tiny plot between Volnay and Meursault, light and fine rather than heavy.

A very small wine in every sense: 0.18 hectares of Pinot Noir in the Les Crays vineyard of Monthélie, the quiet village between Volnay and Meursault, about 25-year-old vines on clay and limestone. Seiichi Saito gives the grapes a few cool days before fermenting them as whole bunches for three to four weeks, then a year in used barrels. At 10.5% alcohol the 2022 is featherweight: red fruit and a little grip, more fine than heavy.