Domaine Chaume-Arnaud Cotes-du-Rhone 2020 CS20230906 and a whiff of spices

and a whiff of spices and orange blossom

It's a house style built on depth rather than sugar

cane forward white rum

a single walled vineyard of around five hectares ringing the Chateau de Puligny-Montrachet at the heart of the village

one water source

Domaine Chaume-Arnaud Cotes-du-Rhone 2020 CS20230906 and a whiff of spicesHere is the open secret: this Cotes du Rhone is really Vinsobres, the northernmost cru of the southern Rhone, just not labeled that way. Vinsobres is a windy hillside village where cool nights slow the ripening, so Grenache and Syrah arrive with more backbone and lift than the flatland fruit filling most CdR bottles. Valerie and Philippe Chaume Arnaud went organic in the late 1990s and converted to biodynamics in the early 2000s, earning Demeter