Domaine Saint-Damien 'Le Clos du Cordier' Côtes du Rhône Blanc 2024 WEST SONOMA COAST Smooth tannins and bright acidity

Smooth tannins and bright acidity meet a gentle seam of bitter cocoa

helped in part by his close connections with fellow vignerons Olivier Lamy

has been vinified using traditional Bordeaux methods

plum and yogurt aromas

Domaine Saint-Damien 'Le Clos du Cordier' Côtes du Rhône Blanc 2024 WEST SONOMA COAST Smooth tannins and bright aciditySt. Damien was an early Christian saint (martyred in the year 287 A. D.), considered the patron saint of doctors. There was a chapel to his honor in the tiny hamlet of La Baumette, just outside the village of Gigondas, where Joel Saurel lives. M. Sau rels decendants thus took the name Saint Damien for the domaine. 50% Clairette, 50% Bourboulenc from a newly acquired vineyard in Buisson, northwest of Vaison la Romaine (near Vinsobres) about a 15 minute