Maxime Francois Laurent Côtes du Rhône Blanc Pantomine 2023 Rioja clay mid-slopes

clay mid-slopes

with salmon crudo or tuna tartare

The 2024 vintage was small and difficult across Burgundy

At his family domaine

Fermented spontaneously in concrete and aged without oak

Maxime Francois Laurent Côtes du Rhône Blanc Pantomine 2023 Rioja clay mid-slopesThe 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