Cuvée Vieilles Vignes 2017
Cuvée Vieilles Vignes

Côtes-du-Rhône

Varieties
  • 50% Grenache
  • 40% Mourvèdre
  • 10% Cinsault et Syrah
Vintages
2017

This organic Côtes du Rhône Vieilles Vignes reflects Xavier Vignon’s deep knowledge of the different terroirs of the Southern Rhône Valley and his passion for blending.


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91-93/100 – JEB DUNNUCK
“The 2017 Côtes du Rhône Cuvée Vieilles Vignes is a smoking good Côtes du Rhône and offers full-bodied aromas and flavors of blackberries, black raspberries, cassis, lavender, and flowers. It’s rich and concentrated, yet also elegant, weightless, and layered, with notable complexity.”


Terroir

The diversity of terroirs used in this blend allows this wine to combine freshness and balance.

We used Clay and limestone plots located on the hillside where old Grenache naturally express roasted hints. We could obtain in this wine empyreumatical hints without the use of barrels. These plots particular soils and orientation allowed grapes to reach an optimal level of ripeness while conserving a good acidity level.

We also integrated grapes coming from plots located on red rocky clay soils also named “garrigues”. These big red stone are restituting heat coming from the sun at night and bring power and structure to the wine.

Also the blend features vines coming from sandy clays, which are light and rather fresh soils: this allowed the wine to maintain a freshness and vivacity.

Vinification and ageing

Vinification

Exceptional quality of the grapes allowed us to limit at a strict minimum the oenological intervention on this wine.

Grenache, Syrah and Mourvèdre fermented together during 4 weeks. No extraction during fermentation.

Everything is done by diffusion and passive exchange.

Ageing

Ageing in stainless steel tanks and ageing in concrete tanks.

Food and wine pairing

Grilled beef – Grilled duck filet with fried fruit and blackcurrant sauce – Lamb Colombo – Subtly spiced pork ribs – Pumpkin terrine with mustard and cumin

  • Aging potential 5 to 8 years
  • Service 14/15°C

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