Les Coteaux Cotes du Rhone Villages

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A delicious accompaniment to grilled meats, casseroles or a classic shepherd's pie.

Immediately impressive this wine reveals its class from the start. Brambly fruit underpinned by subtle oaky nuances, lovely sweet spice; warm star anise with a touch of cinnamon. This classic Cotes du Rhone Villages is enriched with specially-selected parcels from the Cru vineyards of Seguret, Sablet and Cairanne.

Common practice in the Cotes du Rhone is to bottle the best cuvees as a single named Village wine and the rest as basic Rhone Villages. Boutinot's philosophy, on the other hand, is to start with the intention of making the very best Cotes du Rhone Villages possible by sourcing wine from the vineyards of named villages and enriching them with a small proportion of barrel-aged wine from Sable, Seguret and Cairanne. Boutinot Rhone 'Les Coteaux' is therefore a selection of the best Grenache Noir and Syrah from some of the 17 named Cotes du Rhone Villages. We source wine from a number of growers with exceptional terroir allowing us the flexibility to select only the very best fruit from each vintage and reject parcels which do not meet our high standards. Cotes du Rhone Villages enriched with barrels of 'classified' named Village wine from Cairanne, Sablet and Seguret. Mostly unoaked, a small proportion (20%) is part aged for 22 months in a few new but mostly older oak barrels to bring depth and subtle notes of complexity.

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