Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Color:Red A vanishingly rare grape native

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

dedicated to preserving the ancient native grapes of Mallorca

there are aromas of smoked meat

Red berries and orange zest

Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Color:Red A vanishingly rare grape nativeWhen 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