Axel Heinz, former winemaker of Masseto and Ornellaia, is now leading the 2nd Growth estate Château Lascombes in Margaux, and surprisingly, has discovered a plot of Merlot with blue clay in the soil.
It used to be that Vin de France was easy to summarize as a category of wine: unremarkable, unmemorable, and, frankly, uncool. Yet in recent years, they’ve become an unexpected, even unavoidable, ...