Sylvain Cathiard Bourgogne Rouge 2020 [NET] SPRHONE but not to death —

but not to death — give it twenty minutes out of the fridge and it opens right up

The fermentation was let to go extra long for this rum so the congener count was up to 502

the palate bursts with sweet/sour morello cherries and hints of spices

hand-harvesting them at peak ripeness

and from one year

Sylvain Cathiard Bourgogne Rouge 2020 [NET] SPRHONE but not to death —Sbastien Cathiard runs one of Vosne Romane's most coveted addresses, and his Bourgogne Rouge is the bottling that gets it into the hands of mortals. The fruit comes from tiny parcels near the village including a plot in Flagey just opposite Clos Vougeot farmed and vinified with the same precision Cathiard applies to his Grand Crus. Strict destemming, careful extraction, aging in used oak. The result is unmistakably Cathiard: silky, perfumed, and built