Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Color:Red Red berries and orange zest

Red berries and orange zest

Famille Savary's 2023 Chablis is like this

a scrubby landscape full of aromatic herbs so iconic that in France it has the same status as Oregon’s coast

clean acidity

A vanishingly rare grape native to Piedmont is making some interesting noise around town

Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Color:Red Red berries and orange zestWhen Franck Balthazar returned home in 2002 to take over his fathers vines in Cornas, the stakes were relatively low. Cornas was less important than it is now, a small Northern Rhone village where most growers sold their wine in cask to local restaurants rather than bottling them. Things have changed somewhat since then, but Francks methods remain firmly low tech in the vineyard and winery, and his wines are old schooled, full structured, meaty and