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Region: France - Cotes du Rhone
Grapes: Grenache, Syrah, Mourvedre, Cinsault, Clairette
Alcohol: 14.5%
Notes on the Wine
This dark-colored wine has a rich nose with ripe macerated fruit. Roasting note on the palate, wine with a lot of substance. Anaïs leads off her production with an incredibly fresh, friendly (and downright gulp-able!) Côtes-du-Rhône red, which is a field blend of six grapes all picked and vinified together from the plots surrounding the winery. The vines are an average age of 40 years old, planted in activated calcareous limestone soil. The field blend consists of grenache, syrah, mourvèdre, cinsault, clairette, and bourboulenc, with fermentation and aging in traditional cement vats.
Notes on the Producer
With their founding five generations ago, Domaine Vallot is one of the oldest domaines in the Côtes du Rhône. Their modern business was created by François Vallot, who is a fourth-generation vigneron. With an exceptional natural climate and a strong passion for quality, François Vallot was an early adopter of the organic and biodynamic movements in the southern Rhône. He began working in organics in the early 1990s and his vineyards gained official certification from Ecocert in the difficult 2003 vintage, which he credits as one of the reasons his wines were so fresh in a historically hot year. With many years of biodynamic farming under his belt, Domaine Vallot attained their Demeter biodynamic certification in 2007. They have always utilized the natural yeasts present in the vineyard... and spontaneous fermentation in traditional cement vats at Domaine Vallot. Their philosophy is that biodynamic grapes ensure healthy yeasts, which in turn yield nuanced, aromatic wine. Their work in traditional cement vessels allows for very slow heating and cooling, providing more control of fermentation and naturally even temperatures, without using excessive amounts of energy that refrigeration requires. They credit the cement vessels as being best suited to permitting their terroir to clearly transmit an inherent elegance, freshness, and approachability.
