Rolle, better known as Vermentino, has an uncanny ability at brilliantly expressing the soil type. In this case, limestone, carrying a wonderfully mineral, stony quality into the wine, along with lovely fresh citrus. A wine where the complexity far outstrips the modest price.

Lise Carbonne is expertly guiding Domaine Galtier to great heights, with her careful attention to biodiversity encouraging the traditional Mediterranean grape varieties of the area to thrive and produce fruit full of power and aromatics.