Chateau Falfas Cotes du Bourg Le Chevalier 2017 newsletter-aug25 mineral streaked finish

mineral streaked finish

This is a wine with three-dimensional texture that would be perfect with Marcela Hazan’s Chicken with Two Lemons

If you squint out at the horizon when you’re in Walla Walla

the family makes this hearty-yet-approachable Cotes du Rhone from their younger estate vines

Palate is creamy texture

Chateau Falfas Cotes du Bourg Le Chevalier 2017 newsletter-aug25 mineral streaked finishVeronique Bouchet grew up in Saumur, daughter to Francois Bouchet, one of the original Biodynamic winemakers of the 1960s. Eventually she met a man named John and became Veronique Cochran, shortly before purchasing Chateau Falfas in the mid 1980s. By 1988 they had converted the property to biodynamic farming, and became very unusual Bordeaux winemakers in possession of a very unusual sort of Bordeaux Vineyard. The Cotes de Bourg is a relative nowhere