2023 | Maison Shaps Bouzeron "Les Clous" | Burgundy | France Piccini Site-specific "Ocean Reef" bottling

Site-specific "Ocean Reef" bottling

After only time in stainless steel

tangy and punchy on the nose yet complex

providing mineral and acid backbone

A Fifth-Growth Pauillac from the Mouton Rothschild stable — 93 points

2023 | Maison Shaps Bouzeron "Les Clous" | Burgundy | France Piccini Site-specific "Ocean Reef" bottlingOld vine Aligot from Bouzeron the one Burgundy village devoted to the grape made by a Virginia to Burgundy vigneron. Maison Shaps is the Burgundy project of Michael Shaps, a Virginia native who trained in Beaune and has made wine on both sides of the Atlantic for decades. This comes from Bouzeron, the only appellation in Burgundy dedicated to Aligot here from old vines of the prized Aligot Dor clone, fermented sur lie for texture and depth. Old vine