Alcohol: 13.1%
Grape(s): 100% Syrah
Localization: Crozes-Hermitage, Northern Rhône, Rhône Valley, France
Tasting Notes: Perfume violets draw you in with the depth and length of the aroma. Beautiful integration, finely spiced, with an earthy, seasoned wood from grape, not oak, rhubarb red fruit. The heart shape is complete, beautifully weighted, and sophisticated. Excellent drinking. Long, fine, delicious.
Notes: 3 to 4-day cold pre-fermentation maceration (6°C), alcoholic fermentation at 30°-32°C with daily pumping over and crushing, 12 to 20-day hot maceration (30°C) then hot running off in barrels, malolactic fermentation in barrels, then 12-month maturing in barrels before bottling at the following autumn.
The Domain: Domaine des Hauts Chassis is located in the south of the Crozes-Hermitage appellation. The estate is 17 hectares spread across Crozes, Condrieu, Hermitage, St Peray and St Joseph. Franck Faugier took over the family estate and has been vinifying since 2003.
He is the fourth generation of his family to tend to their vines in the commune of La Roche-de-Glun in Crozes-Hermitage,; all the previous generation sold their grapes to either Paul Jaboulet Aîne or the Tain Cooperative. Franck’s 12 hectares of vineyards are on the stony soils of Les Chassis, one of the most prized plots of land in Crozes-Hermitage.
Having been growers for so many generations, the Domaine has a collection of excellent vineyards and Lieux-Dits in Crozes-Hermitage and Saint-Joseph.
“From the vine to the cellar, it is the respect of the fruit and of the vine that we support : work of the ground, supervised control, grape harvest in green, manual stripping, manual grape harvest, picking off, treading during the wine making, and a controlled maturing in order to offer you all the pleasure of the fruit and the complexity of the Syrah.”
The vineyard shot of the Les Chassis vineyard below shows just how many large pebbles and galets, cover the southern sites of Crozes-Hermitage.
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