Michel Gahier - Arbois Les Follasses

The Les Follasses vineyard, which is about 2 kilometres from the village, is planted in two different directions. Michel refers to them as Les Follasses A and Les Follasses B. Sometimes he makes one wine and sometimes he keeps them separate. Les Follasses A, which is white marl, runs from north-west to south-east. Les Follasses B runs at right angles to the other vines, from north-east to south-west and has much more red marl mixed with white marl. This wine is from Les Follasses A. The wine from B is not bottled yet. The vines in Les Follasses are just over 46 years old. The wine is all about mineral salinity. It is topped up during its aging and is the freshest of Michel's white wines, the one most suited to early drinking.