Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Brune 2023 [NET] Consignment famously "weightless" in texture yet

famously "weightless" in texture yet endlessly perfumed and long

Papillon comes from those vines

If it's on the shelf

and this Napa Valley Cabernet remains the house's calling card: classically proportioned

the wine opens with delicate lemon cake and honeysuckle before building into something more tense and brisk

Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Brune 2023 [NET] Consignment famously "weightless" in texture yetPure Syrah from the iron rich, dark mica schist soils of Cte Brunethe more powerful, austere half of Cte Rtie. Ren Rostaing began tending family plots in 1971; when his father in law Albert Dervieux retired in 1989 and uncle Marius Gentaz in 1993, he inherited their prized old vines and went full time. Today his son Pierre manages over 20 acres of the appellation's finest sites. This separate Cte Brune bottling (from a 0. 3 hectare plot, first