Joaquin Fiano di Avellino 'Piante a Lapio' 2013 Languedoc Paul favors a gentle but

Paul favors a gentle but long extraction and ages the wine in cement egg for 12 months with minimal sulfur additions

for this bottling still impresses

(50% new oak

mineral white wine with vivacity and length

and the wine ages for two years in well-used oak barrels

Joaquin Fiano di Avellino 'Piante a Lapio' 2013 Languedoc Paul favors a gentle butRaffaeles Piante a Lapio is truly outside of category. Made from 80 to 100 year old Fiano planted in Lapios high altitude volcanic soils, it is fermented spontaneously in casks of chestnut and acacia from local forests, and aged in those same vessels for nearly five years with no topping up. Incredibly, it develops a yeast veil just as a Jura wine would, although Piante a Lapio is marked notably less by veil derived elements than a Jura Savagnin. This