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The Northern Rhône: Levet, Gilles, Lionnet, Balthazar, Bourg, Stéphan and More! September 26, 2026
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The Northern Rhône: Levet, Gilles, Lionnet, Balthazar, Bourg, Stéphan and More!
9/26/26 -
We're proud to offer an oustanding line-up of wines from the Northern Rhone, featuring the excellent 2023s from Vignoble Levet, Domaine Lionnet and Guillaume Gilles, imported by our friend Neal Rosenthal, as well as recent vintages from Franck Balthazar, Dumien-Serrette, Mickael Bourg, Domaine du Coulet, Maison Stéphan and Domaine Rousset.
The new releases from 2023 are the product of a difficult growing season with early rains and mildew followed by heat waves in late summer, but the top estates made superb wines, a bit fresher and more structured than most of the 2022s, offering great drinking relatively soon and the ability to age beautifully for 20 to 25 years.
Agnès Levet of course made wonderful traditional Côte-Rôties, Guillaume Gilles continued his run of superb wines, and it's particularly great to see the wines of Domaine Lionnet receiving the attention they have long deserved!
Today's offer concludes with what we think are the greatest values in the Northern Rhône - the superb Crozes-Hermitages of Stéphane Rousset!
