Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling and Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 champagne-club These special etched holiday-themed bottles

These special etched holiday-themed bottles began as Nat Komes' way of thanking club members

and Orange Blossom Honey

Terra d'Eclano is Aglianico from five plots

and quietly one of the village's most reliable hands

Domaine de Beudon Valais (Switzerland) Riesling and Sylvaner Vieilles Vignes 2020 champagne-club These special etched holiday-themed bottlesRiesling x Sylvaner is the Swiss name for Muller Thurgau, a grape with a deservedly grim reputation earned during its long career as Germany's bulk workhorse. Then you drink one from old vines farmed biodynamically at 800 plus meters on a granite ledge in the Valais, and the reputation starts to look unfair. Domaine de Beudon sits above Fully on a mountainside so steep that the only ways up are a private cable car or a three hour hike along a rope