DOMAINE DE LA VOUGERAIE VOUGEOT 1er LE CLOS BLANC DE VOUGEOT MONOPOL Gin For more than a decade

For more than a decade Winemaker Jon Priest has fashioned Etude wines with a simple creed

The Chardonnay grape was the first varietal cultivated and bottled by Far Niente in our modern era

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the winery is about 15 miles from the cool Pacific Coast

DOMAINE DE LA VOUGERAIE VOUGEOT 1er LE CLOS BLANC DE VOUGEOT MONOPOL Gin For more than a decadeAs old as the Clos de Vougeot, the Clos Blanc de Vougeot was Cteaux Abbey's song of praise. The monks planted the first vines nine centuries ago, and the white wine pressed from the golden grapes filled the abbey church s cruets for almost 700 years. Such precious drops of gold, blinding and rare, are like an island of Chardonnay in an ocean of Pinot Noir A single violin at the heart of an orchestra. The Clos Blanc de Vougeot used to be known as the