The Barou family family makes delicious wines, and grows cherries and apricots on their mixed-use organic estate in Charnas, in the northern section of the AOC Saint-Joseph. Their 2024 Vin de Pays Marsanne "Rendez-Vous" is a simply superb everyday wine!...

This comes from the Tagabelle Vineyard in Los Olivos, a tiny three-acre vineyard farmed organically and with an emphasis on biodiversity, where sheep graze and fertilize the soils. It's a combination of roughly equal parts Marsanne, Roussanne and Viognier, inspired...

This is a unique snapshot of the original plantings at Ibarra-Young, made as a co-fermented field blend of Marsanne, Syrah and Mourvedre from vines on the outside edge of the vineyard (where the name Peripherie comes from). The grapes are...

50-67% Roussanne (1986), 33-50% Marsanne (1986) from red clay, stony, some granite soils on Les Bâties (Les Murettes for the boys) at Larnage, same soils as Les Rocoules at Hermitage, fermented, raised 25% new, 75% 1-3 year 228-litre & 600-litre...

Eric Laguerre's "Le Ciste," (named after a flowering bush in and around his vineyards) is certainly one of the most distinctive whites of the Roussillon. Grown in Eric's high-elevation vineyards on acidic soils of decomposed granite, the wine is made...

This is an oustanding Marsanne from vines planted in 1933 and 1965, aged in 10% new, 90% 1 - 3 year-old 400 liter barrels, 8 months on the lees, no batonnage. The 2024 Vieilles Vignes is an outstanding wine showing...