2020 Rouchier Saint-Joseph La Chave, Rhone, France Jouan Its candid natural colour

Its candid natural colour

Marolo Grappa et Camomile 375 ml

roasted nut quality of Larkmead pokes through quickly though placing this wine stylistically in more of a classic era of California wine

straight to tank

2020 Rouchier Saint-Joseph La Chave, Rhone, France Jouan Its candid natural colourChave is a 1 hectare lieu dit planted with vines dating to 1958. With Western exposition, Chave lies on soil dominated by granitic gneiss. Whole cluster fermentation in concrete over indigenous yeasts, punctuated with pigeage (punching down) and remontage (pumping over). The young wine is then aged over for 16 18 months in neutral (5 9 years) oak barrels of 228L . The finished wine is then bottled unfiltered and entirely without SO2