Etienne Becheras Crozes-Hermitage Rouge 2024

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Etienne Becheras Crozes-Hermitage Rouge 2024This is, as Hemingway said about the best of writing, a true wine. There can be no wine more expressive of this appellation and of the Syrah of the northern Rhone than this splendid bottle of joy. A wine of sublime concentration that gives definition to the term got de svre, this is satisfying, pure and flat out delicious. It bristles with fresh acidity at the outset, then with aeration settles in to display classic northern Rhone meaty fruit.

As the Chauvenet holdings move in a southerly direction

The resulting wine is intense in nearly every aspect

Made from several vineyards sites in Gigondas

apricot fruit

This cuvée is both a vineyard and a barrel selection: Xavier employed a half-hectare 1981 planting of Syrah (with 6% interplanted Viognier)

4 grams per liter of dosage

While not notably richer than the Bramaterra

Composed of 80% Sangiovese with 10% Canaiolo and 10% other indigenous varietals

Vinified and aged on its lees in stainless steel

"Rose-Marie" is a saignee of Merlot from the iconic "Barthelemy" cuvee (produced from their highest-altitude and poorest-soiled site)

a cuvée drawn from grapes harvested from old vines in the “La Landonne” lieu-dit

the Pêcheurs’ Pinot Noir combines varietal silkiness and delicacy with a hint of the Jura’s telltale mineral twang