White Light White Heat: La Graine Sauvage

From her isolated hilltop vineyard in the west of the Faugères AOP, Italian émigrée Sybil Baldassarre stakes out new heights in southern French white winemaking.

Born in Pavia to parents from Puglia, enologist Sybil Baldassarre worked as an estate manager in Bergerac and Faugères before becoming a Faugères vigneronne herself in 2015, with the acquisition of a small hilltop parcel of white varieties in Aïgues Vives. Her tiny, painstaking production of long-fermenting, long-aged white wines is distinguished by its…