Cos D'Estournel Pagodes de Cos

where fog rolls in off the Pacific each evening and sunlight returns the next morning with a kind of quiet generosity

and crushed blueberry skin

"97 points

Cabernet Franc from this storied Chinon site opens with cool river-stone minerality

and tobacco leaf

composted soil

and copious amounts of delicious homemade Provençal cuisine

Pascal Janvier is a butcher-turned-winemaker who cultivates Chenin Blanc and Pineau d’Aunis in the Loir Valley

layered with dried rose hip

Savory herbal tones and a faint smoky bitterness run through the mid-palate

and white peach over a subtle flinty minerality

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