Remove from heat and steep until syrup is at room temperature, about 1 hour.

Line piecrust with banana slices.Whisk eggs in a medium bowl until completely blended.

Add milk, condensed milk, vanilla bean seeds, and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt; whisk until combined.Carefully pour milk mixture over bananas.Bake at 325°F until edges are set and center is slightly jiggly, 45 to 50 minutes.

(Banana slices will rise to top during baking.)Transfer pie to a wire rack to cool..

If desired, sprinkle sugar evenly over top of pie.

Using a kitchen torch, caramelize sugar.organically or biodynamically.

, most lean toward less intrusive styles of winemaking — native rather than manufactured yeasts, less new oak, lower sulfur levels — and almost all of them can be found in appellations like Maranges, which carries nowhere near the cachet of places like Vosne-Romanée or Gevrey-Chambertin.. How to Find the Best Wines From Burgundy.What Maranges does have is land that someone who is not a billionaire can afford.

Dubourg and Mathurin have both worked at star properties — she at the grand cru Clos de Tart and he at Domaine Roulot and Domaine Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier — but their 12 acres here are a more humble venture.Even so, they were lucky to get it.