Côte Rôtie, Côte Blonde, 2024

Côte Blonde is the aristocratic, hypothetical blend of La Landonne and Viailliere – a true Northern Rhône great that always sits at a superior level. It offers the velvet tannin and sleek, layered violet fruits of Viaillière with the salinity and spice of La Landonne. A plot of 50-year-old vines planted on whiter, more limestone soils than the La Landonne, giving a stricter style of wine but with finer-cut tannins and shape. Fermented with 100% whole bunches and aged in large demi-muid casks, a maximum of 10% of which are new.