Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars Cotes de Castillon 2000 CS20231031 Pancho Bugallo and Sebastian Zuccardi

Pancho Bugallo and Sebastian Zuccardi ferment with native yeasts and age in concrete

and effortlessly drinkable

earth and spice driven rye

An outstanding introduction to a serious Montalcino estate—approachable now but with real structure underneath

Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars Cotes de Castillon 2000 CS20231031 Pancho Bugallo and Sebastian ZuccardiA perfectly cellared back vintage from a quietly brilliant Castillon estate. Vieux Chateau Champs de Mars sits in Castillon Cotes de Bordeaux on the right bank, near Le Puy, where Regis Moro farmed organically and worked with low intervention long before it was fashionable, spontaneous fermentations, no new oak, gentle bottling. This Merlot led blend with Cabernet Franc comes from clay limestone soils and, now twenty five years on, the 2000 vintage is