Maxime Francois Laurent Côtes du Rhône Blanc Pantomine 2023 Rioja and the long mineral finish

and the long mineral finish that Clavoillons reliably produces

with salmon crudo or tuna tartare

At his family domaine

Fermented spontaneously in concrete and aged without oak

Two-row spring barley

Maxime Francois Laurent Côtes du Rhône Blanc Pantomine 2023 Rioja and the long mineral finishThe Land Pantomine comes from a single, 30 year old parcel of white Grenache and Bourboulenc in Montbrison sur Lez, the same village at the northern edge of the southern Cotes du Rhone where Domaine Gramenon is based. The vines grow on clay limestone soil over sand, farmed organically by a grower Maxime Francois Laurent sources from directly rather than through his own domaine. It is Rhone geography at its most local: a single hillside a short walk