- SIZE:
- 75cl
Another delicious Syrah from Monier Perreol. This is made from Syrah sourced in the north of Saint Joseph, grown on granite soils. As with all of their wines, this is treated gently; aged and fermented in concrete and stainless steel in the effort to try and preserve the wine's most delicate aromatic qualities, and this has certainly been achieved here!
Stony, mineral, yet earthy Syrah with a characteristic Saint-Joseph lick of bacon fat. Yet at the core of the wine is a pure cassis and lavender quality.
Guillaume Monier is the fourth generation of his family to farm in Brunieux, a lieu-dit in the hills above the village of St-Désirat in the north of Saint Joseph, where they have 5ha of Syrah, Marsanne and Roussanne on gentle, higher altitude slopes. His father Jean-Pierre used to sell the grapes to the local co-op, but in 2001 he decided the quality of the fruit merited being bottled under their own label.
Jean-Pierre was greatly influenced by the teaching of the German biodynamic guru, Maria Thun, and their vineyards have been certified since 2006. In 2008 Jean-Pierre started to work with like-minded vigneron Philippe Perréol combining their resources for some wines. Winemaking is hands-off: fermentation is in concrete or stainless steel, using natural yeasts; ageing is in neutral oak apart from their single vineyard Terre Blanche which sees some new oak.
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