Cuilleron 'Les Vignes d’à Côté' Syrah 2022
Regular price $41.00
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TASTING NOTE: ''This is striking and with exceptional varietal character, showing a beautiful perfume of crushed violets, primary black and blue fruits, spices and camphor notes that not only come through on the nose, but transfer to the palate as well, there is ripe blueberry, plum and black cherry fruits as well as subtle creme de cassis, black olive, fresh ground peppercorns, faint cedar and anise. The mouth feel is rich with the Cuilleron elegance and finesse on full display, this is a case worthy, if not more.'' Grapelive.com
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ABOUT THE WINE: The vines are planted in the great terroir in Chavanay where the soil is granitic and alluvial. Natural cover cropping helps to avoid erosion. No insecticides, with respect of soil and vine balance, are used and treatments are limited (depending on weather and necessity). A small amount of organic-only fertilizer is applied. Precise control of vigor and yields is maintained through leaf thinning and green harvesting for better grape ripening. Disbudding is in spring.
The grapes are hand-picked, then sorted, crushed and partial destemmed in the cellar. Fermentation is in open top, temperature-controlled vats for about three weeks with regular cap-punching and pumping-over. Alcoholic fermentation occurs in vats with native yeasts and malolactic fermentation is in barrels. Maturation takes seven months with 50% in barrels and 50% in stainless steel tanks.
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ABOUT THE PRODUCER: Cuilleron Estates is a producer in the northern Rhône. The estate has been in the Cuilleron family for three generations, but it is the estate’s current owner and winemaker, Yves Cuilleron, who has expanded the size, scope, and scale of the vineyard, land holdings, and winery. ''Yves Cuilleron, one of the top winemakers in the Northern Rhône Valley.'' Huon Hooke, The Real Review
- COUNTRY: France
- REGION: Collines Rhodaniennes, Rhone Valley
- VARIETAL: Syrah
- WINE STYLE: Red Wine
- WINEMAKER: Yves Cuilleron
- CLASSIFICATION: Sustainable farming
- CLOSURE: Cork
- ABV%: 12%
- SIZE: 750ml
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