Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Blonde 2023 (1.5L) [NET] SO20231109 up in the high Penedès

up in the high Penedès about half an hour from Barcelona

and mineral undertones

the Quatre Royer exhibits a toasty

making this simultaneously modern and classically structured

Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Blonde 2023 (1.5L) [NET] SO20231109 up in the high PenedèsThe 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