Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Blonde 2023 (1.5L) [NET] SF Chronicle and baking spice

and baking spice

offering a rich and fruit-forward style with a touch of sweetness

this is the bottle you would actually drink all week on a terrace above the sea

citrus whispers

and the mineral-driven structure that defines top-tier Morgon

Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie Cote Blonde 2023 (1.5L) [NET] SF Chronicle and baking spiceThe 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