Coteaux des Travers (Marine & Paul Charavin) Cotes du Rhone Blanc Zouzou 2024 no ups Balance of fruit and spice

Balance of fruit and spice makes for a terrific pairing with richer foods like a bowl of tonkotsu ramen

with one-third vinified in oak and 5% undergoing malolactic fermentation for richness and texture

and warming spices—cinnamon

layered with notes of brioche

reduced gently with rainwater along the way

Coteaux des Travers (Marine & Paul Charavin) Cotes du Rhone Blanc Zouzou 2024 no ups Balance of fruit and spiceZouzou is the cheerful everyday white from Domaine des Coteaux des Travers, a biodynamic family estate worked by the Charavins on the sunrise facing slopes of Rasteau in the southern Rhone. Robert Charavin converted to organics in the 1990s and to biodynamics soon after (certified Biodyvin), and that careful, living soil farming shows even at the bright, juicy Cotes du Rhone level. This is a fresh, friendly Rhone white made for porch sipping and