The Hole in the Map
In 1936 the surveyors drawing the boundary of Châteauneuf-du-Pape were turned away from a walled hunting estate by its gamekeepers. The vines inside have been Côtes-du-Rhône ever since — surrounded on every side by Châteauneuf, on the same quartz pebbles. Les Quartz is that accident of history in a bottle, from the best year the southern Rhône had seen in some time.