Description

Vincent Paris farms ten hectares of steep granite in the northern Rhône, Cornas at the core, and his Saint-Joseph Les Côtes might be the smartest buy in the whole lineup. He started in 1997 with vines inherited from his grandfather, and his uncle is Cornas legend Robert Michel. Farming skips insecticides and chemical fertilizer, fermentation runs on native yeasts, and aging happens only in old barrels, no new oak, bottled without filtration. James Suckling gave the 2021 93 points and called the pepper off the scale.