Cotes du Rhone Domaine Charvin

Laurent Charvin, sixth generation of a family at Orange since 1851, began bottling his own wine in 1990 and farms organically, on sandy soils next to Châteauneuf-du-Pape. The Côtes du Rhône is Grenache-led, whole-bunch fermented in concrete, with no oak. Parker wrote that the estate may indeed produce the Richebourg of Chateauneuf du Pape"; the Revue du Vin de France gives it three stars."