Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Vintage:2024 and a lick of salty

and a lick of salty granite-laced minerality

hints of strawberry and lime

and this wine is therefore bolder

and exposed to the wind and rain

leading into dried flowers and dusty herbs

Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Vintage:2024 and a lick of saltyWhen 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