Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Vintage:2024 and this wine is therefore

and this wine is therefore bolder

It is one of those varieties – like Trebbiano in Italy – that suffers comparison to other grapes precisely because it is so useful

cream of mushroom soup

and a lick of salty granite-laced minerality

this will also do wonders with Sushi or Sashimi

Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Vintage:2024 and this wine is thereforeWhen 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