2022 Mac Forbes Yarra Valley Chardonnay Bubbles No California-based winemaker loves Savoie

No California-based winemaker loves Savoie varieties as much as Jaimee Motley

primarily in 24-hectoliter casks

invitingly fresh

wild herbs

and dark black rocks

2022 Mac Forbes Yarra Valley Chardonnay Bubbles No California-based winemaker loves SavoieMac Forbes is to Australia what the cistercian monks were to Burgundy and Alessandro Masnaghetti was to Barolo: which is to say he has played an imperative roll in mapping the terroir of the region especially in Yarra Valley, an area that is extremely diverse in soil types and microclimates. In doing this intimate work with the land, he also found that careful (in his case regenerative) farming is key to preserving the diversity that lends to healthy