2022 Domaine Martinelle, Ventoux Rouge

2022 Domaine Martinelle, Ventoux Rouge

Southern Rhône Valley, France 2022 (750mL)
Regular price$29.00
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2022 Domaine Martinelle, Ventoux Rouge

We’ve offered the wines of Corinna Faravel and her Domaine Martenelle enough times over the years, and likely sold dozens if not hundreds of cases, that I don’t think it’s necessary to wax poetic or throw around a lot of flowery language. But, in case you’re new to this extraordinary value here’s the rub: Corinna’s Ventoux Rouge has all the spice, power, elegance, complexity, and length of not just average but really, really good Châteauneuf-du-Pape. And it still (after many years) costs less than $30. This is a house wine for many of us, and the kind of bottle that makes me smile when I see it on an otherwise “fancy” wine list. Stock up, it’s the pro move.

If you take a quick 30-minute jaunt slightly northeast of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, you’ll enter the outskirts of Lafare, located in the northern section of Beaumes-de-Venise (the southern half is known for its naturally sweet, fortified Muscats). This tucked-away commune is home to Domaine Martinelle, a winery founded and run by a one-woman show, Corinna Faravel, who is the wife of Thierry Faravel, co-owner of acclaimed Domaine Bouïssière in Gigondas. Corinna embodies what this blossoming region needs: she’s impassioned, energetic, wise beyond her years, and shows a delicate, hands-off approach so as to let the terroir sing and the wine create itself. She acquired her first plot in 2001, bottled her first vintage solo in 2004, and built a cellar in Lafare in 2009—which made her a fully-functioning domaine.

Ventoux is cooler than most Southern Rhône appellations. It is a blended mountain and Mediterranean climate that is protected from the harsh elements of Mont Ventoux by the sweeping Dentelles de Montmirail, an

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