Heiwa Shuzo Kid Tsuru-Ume, Summer Orange cote-to-cote-club Winemaker Dan Bissell made four

Winemaker Dan Bissell made four dessert wines in 2024

Saumur-Champigny at its most disarming

While Chorey may lack the prestige cache of neighboring appellations

Full bodied in character

it undergoes extended maceration and ages in large Slavonian oak botti

Heiwa Shuzo Kid Tsuru-Ume, Summer Orange cote-to-cote-club Winemaker Dan Bissell made fourNatsumikan, the Japanese summer orange, tastes like a mandarin and a Seville orange arguing: sweet, sour and pleasantly bitter all at once. Heiwa Shuzo blends locally grown natsumikan with amanatsu and lemon, pressing the fruit with the skins left on so the zesty oils and a touch of bitterness come along for the ride. That juice goes into the brewery's Tsuru Ume umeshu, or plum wine, base, producing something citrusy, richly orange and faintly fizzy.