Maison Stephan, Cote-Rotie Coteaux de Bassenon, 2023 SO_Muzard_032824 Unlike traditional méthode champenoise sparklers

Unlike traditional méthode champenoise sparklers

Ghemme from Rovellotti's crown jewel—the Costa del Salmino vineyard

purchased this former potato farm in the mid-1960s

blended only in the strongest vintages

Maison Stephan, Cote-Rotie Coteaux de Bassenon, 2023 SO_Muzard_032824 Unlike traditional méthode champenoise sparklersNatural wine Cote Rotie from the southern tip of the appellation, where the last vines run right up against Condrieu. Jean Michel Stephan and son Romain farm Coteaux de Bassenon organically by horse, then co ferment a field blend of old vine Syrah, Serine and Viognier with carbonic maceration and zero added sulfur. The dark migmatite and biotite soils and the splash of Viognier give a wine that is perfumed and silky rather than brooding, twenty four