2023 Côtes du Rhône - Franck Balthazar Rhone textural and full of Vermont

textural and full of Vermont charm

Soils are mixed: sandstone

including Grand Crus Avize and Oger and four Premiers Crus like Avenay and Coligny

made the traditional way in traditional copper stills with treacly sugar cane molasses

Margherita Otto’s “M8” is a superb traditional Barolo blending grapes from Monforte d’Alba

2023 Côtes du Rhône - Franck Balthazar Rhone textural and full of VermontThe 2023 Ctes du Rhne from Franck Balthazar comes out of the southern Rhne, just outside his home base in Cornas. Franck, who took over the domaine in 2002 from his father Ren (and whose grandfather, Casimir, founded it in 1931), now works about 3. 5 hectares of organically farmed vineyard land. He sticks to traditional, lowintervention methodsfermenting with indigenous yeasts, ageing in aged demimuids, minimal sulphur, ploughing with horses. In 2023