A&E Verset Cornas 2022 NO20231025 While most Champagne houses rely

While most Champagne houses rely heavily on reserves to ensure consistency year after year

with rose petals

so this is Northern Rhone Syrah in its most direct form: violets

7-hectare mid-slope parcel planted in 1987-88 on Jurassic clay-limestone

A&E Verset Cornas 2022 NO20231025 While most Champagne houses relyEmmanuelle Verset farms vines tied to Noel Verset's legacy, including the legendary Champelrose parcel that her father Alain took over, and carries the family's obsessive dedication to precise winemaking. Noel, the genius retired Cornas producer whose bottles now fetch a fortune at auction, stopped making wine in 2006; this is the through line, carried into the next generation. Verset farms top sites with older vines in the granite hills of Cornas,