Domaine Curtet Mondeuse 2017Marie et Florian Curtet farm their small five hectares of vines biodynamically, with utmost respect paid to nature. The 2017 Mondeuse is crunchy and fruit forward, showing notes of strawberry, pepper, and wet stones. A true mountain wine! After many years of apprenticeship, Florian and Marie Curtet have risen as the successors to the dynamic Savoie producer, Jacques Maillet, who made his last vintage in 2015. They have christened their new venture

But the price of grapes has gone up 40% since she started

The grapes hail from a limestone slope known as "les Corvées Sous la Tour"

and finely detailed palate

They work the soil with pickaxe

Shows impressive energy on the sappy

Grapes: Grenache

and especially the Mallorquin climate

From Clos Bateau

This is a rare and expressive wine from four different sites around Arbois (Bruyères

a great base of soil tones

which nearly doubled the family’s original holdings

this Côtes du Rhône flaunts the purity and power of 100% Grenache