Cave Yves Cuilleron Saint-Joseph Les Pierres Seches

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Deep-pitched, smoke-accented black and blue fruit, licorice and floral pastille scents are lifted by a cracked pepper flourish. Broad and fleshy in texture, offering ripe black currant, bitter cherry, and fruitcake flavours that pick up an energizing mineral nuance on the back half. In a lush, generous style, with solid finishing punch and chewy tannins framing a long, spice- and smoke-tinged finish.

Appellation: St-Joseph AC

Region: Rhone, France

Vintage: 2024

Style: Red

Grapes: Syrah

Vinification: From different Syrah vineyards grown on shallow, sandy, granitic soils on the hillsides of Chavanay. ‘Les Pierres Sèches’ refers to the dry-stone walls used to strengthen the vine terracing. The grapes are hand picked; they are then sorted, crushed and partially destemmed in the cellar. Fermented, using native yeasts, in open, temperature-controlled vats for about 3 weeks, with regular cap-punching and pumping-over. Malolactic fermented in barriques, the wine will spend 18 months in barrels before bottling.

Alcohol: 13%

Farming: Organic

Allergens: Sulphites

Pairing suggestion: Duck breast with red wine jus, lamb roast, steak with peppercorn sauce, BBQ ribs, lentil and mushroom casserole, coq au vin, beef bourguignon, charcuterie board with smoked meats, aged Comté