2013 Vinochisti Erbaluce 'E5' Michel Couvreur 2018 Le Sot de l'Ange

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Picked early and whole bunch pressed straight to barrel

2013 Vinochisti Erbaluce 'E5' Michel Couvreur 2018 Le Sot de l'AngeTim Mannings Vinochisti takes Erbaluce out of its DOCG comfort zone and into a skin contact, long levage register. The fruit (organically farmed) is handled with an extended maceration on the skins, then raised patiently in neutral vesselsold barrels and or cementto build texture without oak imprint; its bottled as Vino da Tavola to keep the cellar free of DOC rules, with minimal intervention and low sulfur. The 2013 reads savory and tensile: quince,