Please note: This exclusive wine is available in very limited quantities and is not included in our breakdown discount program.
Alcohol: 13%
Grape(s): Roussanne, Marsanne
Localization: Crozes-Hermitage, Rhone Valley, France
Tasting Notes: This cult estate produces richly textured, seductive white wines from Roussanne. Intensely deep with a wide array of flavors, including apple pie, orange peel, flint, wet stone, and a hint of lavender. The winemakers believe that the whites are more interesting with age than the reds, which they advise drinking sooner rather than later.
The Domain: The intrepid: René-Jean Dard and “the quiet force”: François Ribo has now been producing for 30 years, the most traditionally in the world: they are among the precursors, the initiators of the “Nature Wines” approach, on preferred terroirs that the Japanese and Americans envy, they will not give in, far too rooted and rebellious.
Buy 6 bottles of regularly priced (not on sale) wines and receive 5% off.
Buy 12 and receive 10% off.
Email sale wines do not combine nor count towards the above discount.
We would consider all wine to be "Natural". The term "Natural Wine" has the connotation of lacking a touch with nature. The winegrowers we champion are those who are farmers first. They seek to capture the uniqueness of the site (terroir) in the purest way possible. The product is as pure as possible and without wine-making flaws (brettanomyces, mercaptans, volatile acidity, etc.
Raw, in this case, we define as realistic and not manipulated. The winemakers use the least amount of intervention as possible. Wine should be made in the vineyard, not the cellar. The winemaker's job is to get the wine into the bottle in the purest form possible. There are additives that go into making wine, some are essential and some are not. Wines in this category do not have extra additives. They are free of added sulfur, or have the most minimal amounts possible in order to provide shelf stability for the consumer to experience the wine as the winemaker intended it to be.