Maxime Francois Laurent Côtes du Rhône Blanc Pantomine 2023 Region_Alto Adige and the grape arrives fresh

and the grape arrives fresh and direct

it showcases the grape’s purity: salted lemon peel

This is a lottery ticket

fermented in large open wooden vats with native yeasts

Maxime Francois Laurent Côtes du Rhône Blanc Pantomine 2023 Region_Alto Adige and the grape arrives freshThe Land Pantomine comes from a single, 30 year old parcel of white Grenache and Bourboulenc in Montbrison sur Lez, the same village at the northern edge of the southern Cotes du Rhone where Domaine Gramenon is based. The vines grow on clay limestone soil over sand, farmed organically by a grower Maxime Francois Laurent sources from directly rather than through his own domaine. It is Rhone geography at its most local: a single hillside a short walk