We love when a very full-bodied red comes across as fresh, approachable, and fruit-driven. Elodie Balme’s Cotes du Rhone red does just that, balancing a winter-friendly boldness with a purity of fruit and an easeful texture. As with her superb Rasteau bottling, plum fruit leads the charge, lightly wreathed with warming spices and touches of strawberry and lavender. We consider this to be a very versatile option, equally at home at parties or with a book, great by itself, or at the table with salmon or a cozy ratatouille.
Practicing organic. 75% grenache, 15% carignan, 10% syrah. 70 year-old grenache vines , 20 year-old syrah vines, 80 year-old carignan vines. Rhone Valley, France.
We love when a very full-bodied red comes across as fresh, approachable, and fruit-driven. Elodie Balme’s Cotes du Rhone red does just that, balancing a winter-friendly boldness with a purity of fruit and an easeful texture. As with her superb Rasteau bottling, plum fruit leads the charge, lightly wreathed with warming spices and touches of strawberry and lavender. We consider this to be a very versatile option, equally at home at parties or with a book, great by itself, or at the table with salmon or a cozy ratatouille.
Practicing organic. 75% grenache, 15% carignan, 10% syrah. 70 year-old grenache vines , 20 year-old syrah vines, 80 year-old carignan vines. Rhone Valley, France.
