Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Vintage:2024 "The 2020 Gattinara is elegant

"The 2020 Gattinara is elegant and lifted

and a lick of salty granite-laced minerality

It is one of those varieties – like Trebbiano in Italy – that suffers comparison to other grapes precisely because it is so useful

hints of strawberry and lime

The wines that grow here have that same sense of rustic charm

Franck Balthazar Cotes du Rhone Rouge 2024 Vintage:2024 "The 2020 Gattinara is elegantWhen 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