Oratoire Côtes-du-Rhône Ptit Martin Rouge 2022 Size::1 Bottle firm & balance middle palate

firm & balance middle palate framed by ripe stone fruits and perfumed Bosc pear

Disgorged January 2019

This vintage captures the hallmark elegance of Geoff Weaver’s winemaking — lively and tightly structured

Another Frankland wine with an indelible vineyard and regional thumbprint

Oratoire Côtes-du-Rhône Ptit Martin Rouge 2022 Size::1 Bottle firm & balance middle palateFrdric and Franois Alary bottle this biodynamic value from their 15 20 year old Grenache (80% of the blend) and Syrah vines. Even at this humble level the Oratoire vines yield just 30 hectolitres per hectare, an astonishingly low return given that Cotes de Rhne villages are entitled to be made from vines cropped at 50 hectolitres per hectare. Naturally fermented and raised entirely in concrete, this release struts with the deep, dark, inky power of