Boutinot Les Coteaux Cotes du Rhone Villages

Common practice in the Côtes du Rhône is to bottle the best cuvées as a
single, named, village wine and the rest as more basic Côtes du Rhône
Villages. Boutinot’s philosophy, on the other hand, is to start with the
intention of making the very best Côtes du Rhône Villages possible by
sourcing wine from the vineyards of named villages, and enriching them
with a small proportion of barrel-aged wine from Sablet and Séguret.
Boutinot's Côtes du Rhône Villages 'Les Coteaux' is therefore a
selection of the best Grenache Noir and Syrah from some of the 17 named
Côtes du Rhône Villages. We source wine from a number of growers with
exceptional terroir and so have the flexibility to select only the very
best fruit each vintage (rejecting parcels which do not meet our high
standards). Mostly unoaked, a small proportion (15%) is part-aged for up
to 20 months in a few new, but mostly older, oak barrels to bring depth
and subtle notes of complexity.