Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Blonde 2023 (1.5L) [NET] web-published smooth and versatile with grace

smooth and versatile with grace and complexity

and gravelly limestone soils

from multiple distilleries

Each ingredient steeps for ten days before a 45-day rest brings everything into focus

Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Blonde 2023 (1.5L) [NET] web-published smooth and versatile with graceThe Cote Blonde is the more lyrical of Cote Rotie's two great hills granitic and sand dappled, named (per legend) for the blonde daughter the Lord of Maugiron bequeathed it to. Rostaing's bottling has long been one of the appellation's most graceful, all perfume and silk where La Landonne is iron and grip. Pierre Rostaing, who now runs the estate his father Rene built, farms these old vines with a feather touch and ages the wine in mostly neutral oak