‘Sa’

Sauvignon Blanc, Loire Valley, France

Human skin contact releases DOPAMINE and OXYTOCIN, while drinking a skin contact wine releases JOY and WONDERMENT, so get into it, you spirited, skin-craving misfits! Winemaker Guillaume Noire tends to his vines between Rablay and Champ-Sur-Layon with a desire to show “elemental” or fundamental expressions of the region’s grapes with minimal intervention. The 35 year-old vines were hand harvested from their schist soils and spent a short time on skins to draw out tactility and encourage aromatics. A Jura-feeling-meets-Loire-sensibilities, super aromatic with orange blossom and peel, dandelion, lemon zest, warm, fleshy apricots, fine herbs & a salt-scrub ending. So many wild, wonky and stunning movies that involve SKIN, may we suggest pouring alongside 2013’s ‘Under The Skin’, 2004s ‘Mysterious Skin’, possibly Joseph Gordon-Levitt at his most moving, or make it a marathon with the 2007 British TV series ‘Skins’.