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Franck Balthazar

The good news here is that Franck Balthazar will soon be releasing his first white wine, a 2016 Saint-Pèray sourced from a 0.3-hectare plot of vines that he planted in 2013, and it looks awfully good. The bad news is that there’s only a single barrel of it, for now. The freshness of the 2014 vintage played nicely into Balthazar’s elegant, even understated style, which reminds me a lot of that of Thierry Allemand, which isn’t surprising given the use of whole clusters at both addresses. Franck was one of a number of winemakers who compared their 2014s to their ‘12s, and he suggested that his own wines will likely be drinking well at least a few years before his ‘13s, which he thinks will be long-term agers despite their relative elegance.

From Northern Rhône: Solid ’14 Reds and Outstanding ’15 Whites (Jul 2017) by Josh Raynolds

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2016 Saint-Pèray

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2014 Cornas Sans Soufre Ajouté

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2014 Cornas Chaillot

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2014 Cornas Cuvée Casimir Balthazar

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