Domaine Chaume-Arnaud Cotes-du-Rhone 2020 agrapart with ripe stone fruit on

with ripe stone fruit on the palate

This very fine rosé

and wet stone build a ripe yet generous foundation—approachable now

20 months in mostly neutral French oak

founder Trey Zoeller partnered with OCEARCH's Chris Fischer to place bourbon barrels aboard the MV OCEARCH research vessel

Domaine Chaume-Arnaud Cotes-du-Rhone 2020 agrapart with ripe stone fruit onHere is the open secret: this Cotes du Rhone is really Vinsobres, the northernmost cru of the southern Rhone, just not labeled that way. Vinsobres is a windy hillside village where cool nights slow the ripening, so Grenache and Syrah arrive with more backbone and lift than the flatland fruit filling most CdR bottles. Valerie and Philippe Chaume Arnaud went organic in the late 1990s and converted to biodynamics in the early 2000s, earning Demeter