Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 SHELF it drinks more like a

it drinks more like a structured white than a brawny skin-contact wine

and plum—flavors that will continue evolving for decades

all bright red fruit and Barbera's signature acidity

*Face Nord* is a Grand Cru blend dominated by Pinot Noir

Kimmeridgian slopes that force the vines to work for it

Nicolas Faure VdF Merlot 2024 SHELF it drinks more like aA one man, hands off Burgundy operation worth knowing. Nicolas Faure trained at Domaine de la Romanee Conti and with Jean Louis Chave before building his own tiny domaine from scratch around Meuilley in the Cote de Nuits, farming organically and vinifying with whole clusters and minimal sulfur. This Merlot is a deliberate oddity: a Vin de France bottling from a grape you almost never see in Burgundy, made with the same low intervention, freshness