Brute Bestiale is the wilder, beastlier sibling to Belle Brutale, born the same difficult 2017 harvest when Jacques Perritaz had to source apples from Normandy after a rough Swiss season. Deeper and richer than its cousin, it carries Christmas spice, cloves and a touch of wild, animal character over an unmistakable base of incredible salinity and bone dryness. Hand riddled and hand disgorged with no sulfur and no filtering, its increased minerality gives real core and grip. This 2017 vintage is bigger, rougher and unapologetically beastly...