Tasting Notes
Colour is deep garnet red with purple lights during its youth. Ripe fruits and smoky aromas. Palate on powerful tannins, velvety, blackberry jam. According to the vintage, the wine can be kept from 30 to 60 years.
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Syrah
France
Rhone
750ml
16-18°C
Wine Advocate99(2012)
Colour is deep garnet red with purple lights during its youth. Ripe fruits and smoky aromas. Palate on powerful tannins, velvety, blackberry jam. According to the vintage, the wine can be kept from 30 to 60 years.
The story began with Michel Chapoutier, a unique man with a thirst for knowledge, definitely one of a kind. Michel is openminded and always willing to learn. He seeks to discover and reflect the full potential of his terroirs and let the soils express their true character. That which gives the wines their signature style. This now forms the basis of the M. CHAPOUTIER ethos and our team strives to reveal the very best of what the soils have to offer.
The wine is only produced with grapes coming from the Méal hillside. This slope is composed of high terraces of shingles and clay. The vines are about 50 years old.
The harvest, totally destemmed, is vinified in a small cement vat. High temperature maceration enables a good extraction of grape potential, to obtain soft and stable tannins, compulsory to keep the wine for a very long time. Only the free-run juice is used in this single vineyard. Wine is matured in new or one year old cask. Maturing lasts between 14 and 18 months. The clarification is natural.