Wills Wine Côtes du Rhône “Avant Midi” 2024 Scotland on steep hand-built terraces

on steep hand-built terraces

Innocent gave him years of experience with Freedom Hill fruit before he ever put his own name on a bottle

This is not a tight

southeast-facing

Wills Wine Côtes du Rhône “Avant Midi” 2024 Scotland on steep hand-built terracesThe Land Sguret is one of the Rhne villages that sits high enough to matter. It clings to the western flank of the Dentelles de Montmirail northeast of Orange, at meaningfully higher elevation than the flat Ctes du Rhne vineyards on the valley floor, and the soils shift between clay limestone and galets rouls, the smooth river stones more famously associated with Chteauneuf. That mix is the reason this wine has both weight and lift: limestone clay