Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Color:Red dedicated to preserving the ancient

dedicated to preserving the ancient native grapes of Mallorca

There are a select few wineries in the world whose wines are always great

Red berries and orange zest

there’s very little standing between the garrigue laced soil

Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Color:Red dedicated to preserving the ancientWhen 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