Domaine de Rapatel Vin du Pays du Gard Rouge 2020 columbia valley This Traditional Method Norman Cider

This Traditional Method Norman Cider so utterly transcends the category that we hesitate to even call it cider

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Domaine de Rapatel Vin du Pays du Gard Rouge 2020 columbia valley This Traditional Method Norman CiderDomaine de Rapatel is a fever dream. Grard Eyraud farms a vineyard first planted by his grandfather in 1904 in the rural est part of Rural Languedoc. His winery is an 800 year old barn built by long forgotten monks. He farms his vines without chemical additions and after one vintage using sulfur, he stopped using it entirely because he didnt like the smell. The winery is a maze of fiberglass tanks containing wine from any one of a dozen vintages he