Description
We could almost say Syrah nouveau. Very pure juice from free run juice, with a very short maceration period and yet the complexity that we are used to from Joé. Soft creamy with a fine acidity for the balance, full of ripe strawberries and cherries. Officially in the webshop on the first spring day of 2023 and that is what it tastes like. Fresh and cool and yet hot on the heels of flowering and warmer days. Makes you long for sunbeams. Very, very tasty, preferably slightly chilled, as an aperitif or with spring vegetables.
In 2019, the young winemaker Joé Chandelier started his own domain in the communes of Souvignargues and St Côme and Maruejols in the Gard with 5.5 ha. The vineyards are planted with Grenache, the almost extinct Aramon, Syrah, Carignan and Chasselas. The wines are vinified in the cellar without any filtering or clarification and with only the grape's own yeasts. Depending on the cuvée and vintage, Joé decides whether a small pinch of sulphites is added just before bottling and whether the wine is still matured in old Burgundian barrels. The vineyards are surrounded by trees and hedges, which means that no insecticides have to be used. The vines are very old, on average 80 years old, and the yields are kept low.
- Country / Region : France/ Cévennes/Gard (Languedoc)
- Grape variety(ies): 100% Syrah
- In the vineyard: Syrah from 24 year old vines in St. Côme et Maruejols. Grapes harvested very early, by hand. Blue marl terroir
- In the cellar: Grapes completely destemmed, very short skin maceration. Carbonic maceration. Free run juice After malolactic fermentation only 15mg/L sulfite added. Maturation on 'fiberglass' Unfiltered
- Quality mark: Biodynamic & Vin Nature
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