▸ Lemon. Green apple. Pear.

▸ Clay-limestone, 10 km from Nîmes.

▸ Quietly crisp, oak-free.

Terrace clay keeps the fruit cool, so a cold bottle resets the workday with brisk lemon and green-apple bite. It copes easily with grilled trout brushed with garden herbs and a squeeze of citrus.

The fruit grows on old colluvial clay-limestone terraces barely ten kilometres from Nîmes, a zone more famous for Roman masonry than Chardonnay. Vignerons Propriétés Associés sends the juice straight to stainless steel, no oak, no lees tricks. Result: white-flower perfume and a razor line of lemon zest.