Monopole Cru Snapback Hat Color:Black / White / White Limestone-grown wines have a texture

Limestone-grown wines have a texture

austere precision — wines that Salon and Krug's Clos du Mesnil have made famous

Château Pradeaux and La Roque carry it forward

A Bordeaux wine collector gift for the quality-obsessive who doesn't dress formally about it

the slopes are near-vertical

Monopole Cru Snapback Hat Color:Black / White / White Limestone-grown wines have a textureYou're a member of an exclusive club. Monopole Cru means a single producer owns the entire vineyard. There's no other way in. A monopole is one of wine's rarest and most coveted designations a vineyard owned entirely by a single producer, with no other wines bearing the same name. DRC's entire portfolio is technically monopole. Clos des Lambrays. Clos de Tart. These are vineyards where the winemaker's vision isn't diluted by competing interpretations.