Domaine Vallot Cotes-du-Rhone

Anaïs Vallot crafts an incredibly fresh, friendly (and downright gulp-able!) single-vineyard Côtes du Rhône red from a field blend of six indigenous grape varieties that are all picked and vinified together from the contiguous vineyard that surrounds the winery. The vines are an average of 40 years old, planted in silty calcareous clay soil with limestone bedrock. The field blend consists of grenache, syrah, mourvèdre, cinsault, clairette, and bourboulenc, with spontaneous native-yeast fermentation and aging in traditional cement vats. Domaine Vallot Côtes du Rhône delivers a deliciously complex and intensely satisfying red Rhône wine that is among the finest examples of the type and one of the only single-vineyard examples.