“A little salty” is a perfect name for this wine from the craggy limestone cliffs and narrow valleys east of Marseille. Petit Salé is a nickname for Clairette, which has distinctive white speckling on its skin, and a strong salty aroma. Chateau de Roquefort uses seventy year old, biodynamically farmed Clairette vines for the majority of this wine, with the addition of Vermentino and Ugni Blanc. True to its name, the first aromas that climbs out of the glass is salt, followed close by white plum, apple, lemon and pineapple fruits. The palate is kinetic and full of sharp edges, salt, lemon tang, crisp apple, and spicy note of red pepper flakes. Spring blossoms bloom on the finish with a fresh burst of acidity rare in Mediterranean whites. Freshness and minerality are everything here. The vines are planted facing northwest, away from the sun at almost 1300 feet of elevation. In the winery, the wine is kept cold enough to inhibit malolactic fermentation, preserving the sharpest edge of tartaric acidity that makes white wines crisp. This is an impressively clear, crisp white that brings its own seasoning to any meal.