Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie La Landonne 2023 (1.5L) [NET] CHECK UPC and poached apples

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Cooked for 3 days in an oak-fired conical stone oven then rested 3 daysMilled using a combination of axe

The salty Atlantic wind does most of the work in the vineyard

Fresh-cut grass

Rene Rostaing Cote-Rotie La Landonne 2023 (1.5L) [NET] CHECK UPC and poached applesIf the Cote Blonde is Cote Rotie's lyric poet, La Landonne is its iron fisted statesman a steep, iron rich schist slope that produces the appellation's sternest, longest lived Syrahs. Rostaing's bottling is a textbook expression: dark fruited, mineral, structured, and only properly approachable after a long sleep. Pierre Rostaing handles it with the same restraint he brings to all the cru wines, leaning on neutral oak and old vine concentration rather