2023 Côtes du Rhône - Franck Balthazar Rhone a relatively new producer

a relatively new producer

ripe peach and pear

but with a mineral streak that keeps everything in balance

particularly lobster or oysters

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

2023 Côtes du Rhône - Franck Balthazar Rhone a relatively new producerThe 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