Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Gamay 2014 SO051726 Breuer Dominique also farms vines in

Dominique also farms vines in neighboring Puligny — and the contrast is illuminating

This Falanghina is bright and fresh

A serious bottle from a name usually associated with three- and four-figure prices

and elegant rather than heavy

with genuine structure to grow on

Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Gamay 2014 SO051726 Breuer Dominique also farms vines inThere are exactly two ways to reach Domaine de Beudon: a three hour climb up a rope assisted footpath, or the family's small private cable car. The vines cling to granite on a sheer mountainside above Fully in the Valais, topping out near 900 meters with slopes pitching as steep as fifty degrees, which is why nearly everything is done by hand. Jacques Granges moved up here in 1971 and converted to biodynamics by 1992, among the very first in