Vigne Surrau Vermentino di Gallura Branu 2024 web-published sitting on a singular mosaic

sitting on a singular mosaic of purple schist

Jean-Marc Pillot — distinct from cousins Paul Pillot and Fernand & Laurent Pillot — is a fourth-generation Chassagne white-wine specialist

and the wine reflects exactly that

The wine has excellent concentration of fruit flavors from start to finish

From vines planted in the 1930s

Vigne Surrau Vermentino di Gallura Branu 2024 web-published sitting on a singular mosaicIn Gallura, the vines grow in decomposed granite and the sea is never far away, and you can taste both in this wine. Branu is Vigne Surrau's freshest expression of Vermentino: stainless steel start to finish, no oak, bottled early to keep every bit of its snap. The name comes from a Sardinian word for spring, which is exactly the season it evokes. This is the bottle you open without ceremony, on a warm evening, ideally with something that came out of