Domaine Labet, Cremant Rose, 2022 bdycount091824 Franck Balthazar’s 2022 Cornas Cuvée

Franck Balthazar’s 2022 Cornas Cuvée Juliette hails from steep

González Byass remains family-owned through the 4th and 5th generation

This 2016 is soft

The tannins are ripe but smooth

planted Place of Changing Winds in 2012 in Bullengarook

Domaine Labet, Cremant Rose, 2022 bdycount091824 Franck Balthazar’s 2022 Cornas CuvéePinot Noir has deep roots in the Jura the region faces Burgundy across the valley and shares plenty of the same Jurassic limestone and marl and Domaine Labet turns theirs into a rose Cremant that lands about as far from poolside frivolity as pink bubbles can get. It's light bodied and completely dry, built on tension rather than sweetness: wild strawberry and red currant, a chalky snap, a fine persistent bead. The Labet family farms small parcels