Richel Mondeuse "Paradoxe" Norello Mascalese If you’ve spent real time

If you’ve spent real time with the 2016s

I love all of their wines so much that this is the second email on them this week

A wine’s birthplace leaves its imprint sine die

more woodland register — tart cranberry and red currant giving way to dried violets

Aromas of heavy cream

Richel Mondeuse "Paradoxe" Norello Mascalese If you’ve spent real time2021 Famille Richel Mondeuse Paradoxe carries its Alpine origins with quiet authority. The nose opens on dark cherry and wild blackberry, lifted by violet, cracked black pepper, and a cool note of forest undergrowth, with a faint touch of licorice trailing behind. On the palate its taut and vivid, driven by sour cherry and tart cranberry, brisk acidity, and firm, gripping tannins that give the wine its nervy, savory edge and distinctly Savoie sense of