Appearance: very deep garnet red.
Nose: black fruit jam, smoked and mineral overtones.
Palate: smoky and peppered aromas. Tight tannins with a long persistency in mouth. According to the vintage, the wine can be kept from 30 to 60 years, indeed from 50 to 75 years.
Sommelier's advice:
A very fine, elegant weave, the notes of blueberries and graphite play with the wine’s reduction with refined tannins.
Food pairing : Fish in tapenade sauce Small game, lamb Cooked pork meats Soft cheeses, goat's cheese
St Joseph, Les Granits Rouge 2022, M.Chapoutier
Grape variety/varieties: Syrah. Selection of our oldest Syrah trunks in the birthplace of the Saint Joseph appellation.
Harvest: The grapes are hand-harvested at a very good maturity.
Soil: Very poor and very stony granitic soils.
Vinification: The grapes are 100% destemmed. Slow fermentation in small concrete vats. The process of fermentation is very long and lasts for more than one month, to polymerize tannins. Only the free-run wine is used in this single vineyard.
Ageing: Entirely aged in casks (new casks and casks having matured wine once or twice before) from 16 to 18 months.
Alcohol content: 14.5
