Rhône Valley, North and South: Rousset "les Picaudières" and Many More!
Rhône Valley, North and South: Rousset "les Picaudières" and Many More!
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....
$33.99
Rousset, Stephane 2023 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge Les Méjeans
The Rousset 2023 Crozes "Les Méjeans" is a superb new cuvée made with Syrah from 60 year-old vines on a granite terroir near the village of Crozes. The aromas are bright and pretty with black fruits, the palate is dense...
$29.99
Rousset, Stephane 2023 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. "this has...
$24.99
Rousset 2024 Saint-Joseph Rouge
The 2024 Rousset Saint-Joseph is from a one-half hectare parcel of 35 to 70 year-old vines in "Les Rivoires" on the slope in Tournon, a cool, very steep, late-ripening terroir with clay, sand and stones over firm granite. Aged 12...
$33.99
Rousset 2024 Crozes-Hermitage Blanc
From 85% Marsanne and 15% Roussanne grown on hillsides of powdered granite with clay and gravel - great terroir producing this delightful wine from the Rousset family. The Rousset Crozes Blanc is lovely again in 2024 with the Roussanne adding...
$26.99
Rousset 2024 Crozes-Hermitage Marsanne Vieilles Vignes
This is an oustanding Marsanne from vines planted in 1933 and 1965, aged in 10% new, 90% 1 - 3 year-old 400 liter barrels, 8 months on the lees, no batonnage. The 2024 Vieilles Vignes is an outstanding wine showing...
$34.99
Finot, Thomas 2024 Crozes-Hermitage Blanc
Thomas Finot, who is making fascinating wines in the Coteaux Grésivaudan in the Isère, makes a tiny quantity of Crôzes-Hermitage Blanc and Rouge. This beautiful Crôzes Blanc is from 100% Marsanne grown on the family's 1.8 hectare parcel of old...
$31.99
Barou 2024 Condrieu Les Mains D'Or
The new Barou Condrieu "Les Mains D'Or" is a beautiful wine, raised in amphora, showing lovely very floral, white fruit and citrus aromas. The palate is delicate, elegant and silky with fabulous purity of whte and yellow fruits with a...
$49.99
Barou 2024 Viognier Bonne Étoile VdP Collines Rhodaniennes Viognier
From 30 year-old Viognier vines in Charnas, just outside the Condrieu AOC, always tended organically. Pale gold color, lovely aromas of lime-flower, lemon, mango, pear and spice, quite pretty and subtle. The palate is refreshingly light and balanced with lemon,...
$21.99
Barou 2024 Rendez-Vous Marsanne Vin de Pays Collines Rhodanienne
The Barou family family makes delicious wines, and grows cherries and apricots on their mixed-use organic estate in Charnas, in the northern section of the AOC Saint-Joseph. Their 2024 Vin de Pays Marsanne "Rendez-Vous" is a simply superb everyday wine!...
$17.99
Barou 2024 Vin de Pays Cuvee des Vernes Syrah
From 40 year-old Syrah vines in Charnay, just outside the Saint-Joseph AOC, on living soils tended organically for forty years by Marie-Agnès and Emmanuel Barou. Plowing by tractor or weeding by hand on the steep slopes. Hand-harvested, wild-yeast fermentations, aging...
$17.99
Barou 2024 Saint-Joseph Un Autre Monde
Domaine Barou has been organic since the 1970s and also produces cherries, apricots and peaches. The Saint-Joseph vines (all Syrah of course) are in Limony, on thin granite soils, and are 25 to 50 years old. Shallow plowing ("griffage") is...
$26.99
Amphores 2023 Saint-Joseph Les Mésanges
"Les Mésanges" is a cuvée of Saint-Joseph made from 30 to 50 year-old organic Syrah vines on biotite granite soils in the vineyards of "Pecher" and "Vauturerie" at Chavanay, 30 - 40% whole cluster, aged 18 months in 600 liter...
$29.99
Amphores 2023 Saint-Joseph "Les Sept Lieux"
The Amphores "7 Lieux" is from vines planted in the 90's, always organic, and from parcels of old vines, converted to organic, in Chavanay, just south of Condrieu. Philippe and Veronique Grenier have always farmed organically and now they are...
$25.99
Amphores 2024 IGP Les Iris Viognier
We love Condrieu, but Viognier from other regions can often be cloying and uninteresting. This example from the Grenier family in Chavanay, however, is elegant and outstanding. It comes from Viognier vines just south of the Condrieu AOC, always tended...
$22.99
Amphores 2024 Saint-Joseph Blanc Altitude 300
(Last 6 btls) From Veronique, Philippe and Remi Grenier at Domaine des Amphores, certified organic and Biodynamic. 80% Roussanne, 20% Marsanne on granite soils in "Le Monteillet" at 300 metres altitude. Fermented and aged in anfora and vat rather than...
$26.99
Dumien Serrette 2022 Cornas "Henri"
The Dumien-Serrette 2022 "Henri" is from vines planted in 1913 on Patou, a steep hillside of granite soils. 100% whole-cluster fermentation, aging in one-year old barrels, then 3 - 6 year-old barrels. 900 bottles were made in 2022. Drink over...
$74.99
Crève Coeur 2025 CDR Rosé du Coucou
The youthful Pablo Hocht makes beautiful wines at his Biodynamic estate in Seguret (southern Rhone) - his "Rosé du Coucou" is a refreshing direct-press rosé made with old vines of 60% Grenache and 40% Cinsault. The 2025 is a bit...
$16.99
Crève Coeur 2025 Cotes du Rhone Rouge
This beautiful Cotes du Rhone from Pablo Hocht at Crève Coeur is made from 60 to 70 year-old vines of Grenache in Biodynamic farming, with an interesting mix of semi-carbonic and traditional fermentations with whole-cluster and de-stemmed grapes. The 2025...
$16.99
Crève Coeur 2025 Cotes du Rhone Seguret Blanc
Wow, Pablo Hocht's new Seguret Blanc is a classy and delicious wine! Made from Grenache Blanc, Picpoul, Marsanne, Roussane and Viognier, Biodynamic farming, vinification and aging in old barrels. The aromas are subtle and complex with almond, citrus, pear, stone,...
$19.99
Crève Coeur 2024 CDR Villages Seguret
Pablo Hocht of Domaine de Creve Coeur has 3 hectares of 60+ year-old vines in Seguret on sandy limestone marl soils, 60% Grenache, 30% Mourvedre and 10% Syrah. As with his lovely Sablet, the Seguret is certified biodynamic, fermented slowly...
$19.99
Crève Coeur 2024 CDR Villages Sablet
This blend of 80% Grenache and 20% Mouvedre comes from old vines in “Le Planis,” planted just after the Second World War in Sablet. Creve Coeur’s Pablo Hocht created the Domaine in 2010, with a commitment to organic and Biodynamic...
$18.99
Creve Coeur 2023 Seguret Pachamama
The 2023 "Pachamama" from Pablo Hocht is a vibrant and elegant Seguret from Grenache and Syrah vines on an east-facing slope of limestone marl. The wine shows a bright red/black color with very pretty blackberry/blueberry fruit, very fresh and pure....
$21.99
