Domaine de l’Agramante Cuvée Ciaülà Côtes du Rhône Rouge 2022 (6 Bottles) Rhone Valley, France

Ciaula translates to Crow in Sicilian, a reference to a character in a Pirandello story where a slave rasies his head out of a sulphur mine at night and sees the beauty of the moon for the first time.

The parrallels between the life of this character and Carlo La Rocca are clear – Ciaula is an homage to his lightbulb moment when he first saw his way into the world of wine.

This wine is comprised of old vine Grenache, Syrah, Cinsault, Counoise, shaped into a lively medium bodied red with plenty of energy and plenty of grunty tannin.

A fantastic wine for the dollars asked – pound for pound one of our favourite recent discoveries from the southern Rhone.