pork and chicken dishes and creamy cheese
In this land of châteaux and sea breezes
these wines feature everything else you’d want from a true vigneron — particularly Daniel’s aversion to American oak and preference for 500-liter lightly toasted French oak demi-muids that elevate the terroir and offer Rioja with juicy
nutmeg and light toffee that elegantly come together with the flavor of orange bitters
smoother rum
Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe (Famille Brunier), Châteauneuf-du-Pape La Crau, Southern Rhône, France 2014 shrinkflation pork and chicken dishes andFull of finesse and alluring notes of black cherry, eucalyptus, mint, and garrigue. Of course, its still Grenache grown under a southern sun and in a soil packed full with radiating rounded river stones, so theres plenty of structure, flavor, and succulence. But if you welcome a soulful country rouge with a little more elegance and poise than usual, youre in for a treat. One cannot think of Chteauneuf du Pape, the most celebrated cru of the southern