Rhone Valley
Rhone Valley
Dumien Serrette 2021 Cornas "Patou" Vieilles Vignes
Dumien-Serrette is a happily old-fashioned estate in Cornas with 1.5 hectares in the Patou vineyard, which has primarily granitic soils; the remainder, .3 hectares, is located in Les Savaux. The vines in Patou date back to the 1920’s, with some...
$45.99
Terre des Chardons 2023 Costiètres de Nimes "Bien Luné"
The 2023 "Bien Luné is made with 60% Grenache, 30% Syrah and 10% Cinsault grown on this small Biodynamic estate, on soils of rolled stones with silex, left by the Rhone river. "the nose gives blackberry with sweet appeal, a...
$16.99
Terre des Chardons 2022 Costieres de Nimes "Marginal"
The 2022 Terre des Chardons "Marginal" is 85% Syrah, 15% Grenache, grown on "galet roulés" soils of rolled stones from the Rhone river. Biodynamic farming since 2002. It's a deep ruby with shades of purple in the glass, and a...
$18.99
Clos du Joncuas 2022 Vacqueyras "Font du Papier"
From 80% Grenache with Syrah and Mourvedre, grown on gravelly limestone terraces, always farmed organically, whole-cluster fermention and aged in concrete vats. Dany and Carole Chastan have made another superb Vacqueyras in 2022, a bit softer and less tannic than...
$23.99
Terre des Chardons 2021 Clairette de Bellegarde "J'M"
100% Clairette. Light gold color with green highlights, expressive aromas of white fruits and white flowers. Very aromatic, with a rich and uncuous palate... A delicious southern rhone white with zippy acidity, stony minerality and a medium bodied palate full...
$16.99
Rousset, Stephane 2022 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge
100% Syrah from 40 - 50 year-old vines on hillside vineyards in Erôme, Gervans and Crozes, on mostly granite hillsides and clay/limestone soils as well, all on hillsides, some quite steep. A true wine of the granite terroirs, the 2022...
$21.99
Rousset, Stephane 2022 Crozes-Hermitage "Les Picaudieres"
Les Picaudières is perhaps the best vineyard in Crozes-Hermitage, formerly owned by Raymond Roure and now tended by Stéphane Rousset. It's a steep slope of granite terraces, isolated in an oak forest facing due south and protected from the wind....
$27.99
Dard & Ribo 2023 Crozes-Hermitage Blanc
50-67% Roussanne (1986), 33-50% Marsanne (1986) from red clay, stony, some granite soils on Les Bâties (Les Murettes for the boys) at Larnage, same soils as Les Rocoules at Hermitage, fermented, raised 25% new, 75% 1-3 year 228-litre & 600-litre...
$61.99
Dard & Ribo 2024 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge 'C'est le Printemps
"Syrah (50% 1970s, 50% 1996) from La Grace on the plain at Mercurol, clay with sand and a lot of rolled stones, very precocious vineyard, with Meridional influences, so an extravagant Syrah, a little Syrah from Les Bâties at Larnage...
$44.99
Dard & Ribo 2023 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge "Les Baties"
Syrah (1923, 1947-48, 1987) from 2.5 hectares on S-E facing red clay and rolled stone soils on Les Bâties at Larnage, 67-100% whole bunch fermentation, 2-3 week vinification, pumping overs, raised used 600-litre oak casks 10 months, unfined, unfiltered, has...
$69.99
Dard & Ribo 2023 Saint-Joseph Rouge
Syrah 50% from sandy granite on Pitrou at St-Jean-de-Muzols (1940s-1950s Syrah) and 50% from hard granite, quartz, red clay, alluvial stones on Les Champs at Tournon (1960s Syrah), sandy granite at Vion (1970), whole bunch fermentation, pumping overs, aged used...
$66.99
Balthazar, Franck 2021 Cornas "Chaillot"
Franck Balthazar is one of the few truly organic and natural producers in the northern Rhone and, like the Gonons, he practices whole-cluster fermentations with wild yeasts and ages in old (5 years and older) large barrels. The "Chaillot" cuvée...
$94.99
