A&E Verset Cornas 2023 22BDX America's smallest AVA

America's smallest AVA

Notes of green melon

or hold it a year or two and watch the seams loosen

and that characteristic Saint-Aubin salinity—a benchmark for age-worthy white Burgundy at remarkable value

Their philosophy is simple yet profound: "bring the world to the Azores and take the Azores to the world

A&E Verset Cornas 2023 22BDX America's smallest AVACornas from a sixth generation vigneronne carrying one of the appellation's most legendary names into a new era. Emmanuelle Verset is one of only two women running a domaine in Cornas, and she farms inherited plots of ancient vines in storied sites like Champelrose, Les Mazards, and Reynard, with an average vine age around 60 years and some over a century old. The granite hillsides here, baked by Northern Rhone sun, give Syrah extraordinary intensity,