Domaine Chaume-Arnaud Cotes-du-Rhone 2020 CS20230906 pupil of Amarone's godfather Giuseppe

pupil of Amarone's godfather Giuseppe Quintarelli

It's a house style built on depth rather than sugar

With notes of figs

and wild red berries

Domaine Chaume-Arnaud Cotes-du-Rhone 2020 CS20230906 pupil of Amarone's godfather GiuseppeHere 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