Crozes-hermitage - Red - 2005 Vintage

Soils: This wine comes from vines grown on terraces above the Rhone. The soils are wasted and contain very little clay but a lot of smooth stones.

Grape variety: 100% syrah

Vinification: The plots are machine-harvested and vinified separately to bring out the expression of each terroir. Vatting lasted over 20 days with temperature control at the end of fermentation. Malolactic fermentation began one month after devatting.

Maturing: The wines are lightly filtered and then put in 300litre oak tuns to mature for 8 months.

Tasting notes: This wine is intensely coloured with a nose of great aromatic complexity: small red fruit and buds. The attack in the mouth is very fruity and complex with low acidity but good balance.