2021 Domaine Mie Ikeno Chardonnay, Yatsugatake, Japan Francois Rousset-Martin The wine is wild‑fermented parcel

The wine is wild‑fermented parcel by parcel—including a touch of barrel fermentation in older French oak—with no new oak used

Raised on lees for 10 months before returning to tank for additional elevage

This is only our sixth batch in the twelve years since our first release

Native Fermentation

where they were destemmed and left to rest on their skins overnight

2021 Domaine Mie Ikeno Chardonnay, Yatsugatake, Japan Francois Rousset-Martin The wine is wild‑fermented parcelConsidered one of the greatest winemakers in Japan, Mie Ikeno grows Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Merlot in the highest elevations of Japans wine country of Yamanashi which she crafts into expressive wines of insistence and power. For the first thirty odd years of her life Ikeno san was a journalist and one of the most respected interviewers in Japanese magazines. After talking to countless creative people in depth about their passions she began to