Brasserie des Voirons Chenin Blanc 2024 SPRHONE Fumin is the great red

Fumin is the great red grape of the Valle d'Aosta

and that was that

then blended with sugar

low-intervention expression of the grape — crunchy red fruit

an 8-year rye

Brasserie des Voirons Chenin Blanc 2024 SPRHONE Fumin is the great redYes, it says Chenin Blanc. No, it isn't wine. Brasserie des Voirons brews in the Haute Savoie hills above Lake Geneva, and their "vigneronne" series is the strangest and best thing they do: spontaneously fermented beer aged for months in old barrels on the grapes and lees of winemaker friends. Chenin turns up with its usual bag of tricks quince, orchard fruit, beeswax, a lick of honey but wrapped around a beer's grain and body, with a wild yeast tang