Domaine La Bohème and Sous le Vegetal

Photo from importer ZRS Wines.

Come across your passport and need to dust it? Yeah, that is a real feeling. Two Sous La Végétal bottles would be lovely companions to a beachy morning day dream. Laced with white flowers blooming from all around the equator of every shape and size, these 2018 bottlings are relaxed and ready to go. From gloriously ripe grapes growing on the Greek Island of Samos in the Aegean Sea, Jason Ligas and Patrick Bouju compose the Muscat to hum your stress away.

While the name Patrick Bouju might not ring any bells, I am sure the wine Festejar! will. With its light hearted pink bubbles, Festejar! is a perfect summer wine. This may be a bit of a tease as the wine has not yet been released, but we have these four other wines to quench our thirst and whet our appetites--or we can hope, as nearly all of Auvergne's harvest was just wiped out by frost! In addition to the Samos wines, we have two other wines made from fruit that Patrick purchased from close friends in the Loire and the Beaujolais.

Patrick tends many different plots of land around his village, plus the ones on Samos, some dating as far back as 1905. The old vines were planted so close together that he does not allow any type of machinery in the vines. Bouju does all of his gardening with horses and by hand. With such great age and a meticulous attention to detail, these wines are a brilliant display of the gorgeous correlation between old vines and delicious wines.

-Eva and Jean-Paul
 

Sous La Végétal - Jason Ligas and Patrick Bouju

Livia -$35 (out)

Octave - $45

While both wines are Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains, Livia has some white beach minerality while the Octave has a sultry aromatic heart.

Domaine La Bohème - Patrick Bouju

M - Melon de Bourgogne - $40 (out)

Super B - Gamay - $45

The Melon is open, broad and savory, balancing orchard fruit with granitic edge--like Chenin Blanc, but with a friendlier disposition. The Super B is everything you like about Gamay: juicy and earthy, with just enough tannins to remind you that it is wine.