2021 Brand Hill of Flags Champagne Chateauneuf du Pape's red wines

Chateauneuf du Pape's red wines are not for the faint of heart

supplmemented by fruit from their other vineyards

This is a classic mountainside Napa Cab with and highlight on purity

and they currently sell grapes from younger vines to other producers in the area

2021 Brand Hill of Flags Champagne Chateauneuf du Pape's red winesThis is one of two single vineyard Riesling bottlings. This comes from a site called "Fahneberg," which would loosely translate to "Hill of Flags." It is a limestone dense parcel, toward the top of the Sonnenberg and very cool and windy. This is the most linear and incisive of the two Rieslings, with a higher acidity and more pronounced minerality.