Description
Region: Northern Rhône, France
Producer:Vins de Vienne (Chavanay)
Vintage: 2023
Grape: Syrah
Type: Still red
Size: 75CL
Tasting Notes:
Powerful yet elegant — a Côte-Rôtie built like "a hammer with a velvet sole." Floral and spice-laced nose of blackberry, cassis, cinnamon and coffee, with generous, juicy fruit and fine tannins carrying through to a long, harmonious finish.
Food pairing:
Western cuisine: Game, roasted beef, mushroom dishes
Asian cuisine: Braised short rib, Korean galbi, five-spice duck
Winemaking:
0.5 ha, Schists, single lieu-dit at the northern end of the appellation
hand picked. 16 months in French oak barrels. Tangential filteration before bottling.
Vins de Vienne
Founded in 1996 by three of the Northern Rhône's most respected winemakers — Yves Cuilleron, Pierre Gaillard and François Villard — Vins de Vienne began with a single mission: to bring the ancient, Roman-era vineyards of Seyssuel back to life. Long forgotten after phylloxera wiped them out, these steep schist hillsides once produced wines celebrated by Pliny the Elder. Today, the estate spans nearly 25 hectares across Seyssuel and other top Northern Rhône appellations — Côte-Rôtie, Condrieu, Saint-Joseph, Saint-Péray, Crozes-Hermitage and Cornas — crafting Syrah, Viognier, Marsanne and Roussanne wines known for their precision, elegance and true sense of place.