A delightful dark and spicy Northern Rhone Syrah from a small family producer. From this iconic Northern Rhone vineyard site that attains an excellent level of ripeness and depth of flavour comes a bold, fresh 100% Syrah wine that on the palate has a wealth of blackberry, dark cherry and plum flavours, intertwined with savoury and black pepper spice characters. Its fine, delicate oak and complexity make it a powerful and structured wine, offering pleasure in the short term, as well as great potential for aging in bottle. The Details: Grape: Syrah Country: France Region: Northern Rhone Valley Abv: 13.5% Style: Medium, blackfruit, pepper, oak spice, soft, perfumed The Producer: The Chevalier family are polyculturalists who, apart from cultivating vineyards, farm the other crop famous in the region: apricots. Until 2009, they delivered all their grapes to the co-operative in Tain which, ironically, their ancestors had helped to create 100 years before. Their 17 hectares of vines extend on the superior slopes of the appellation, above the village of Chanos Curson which are divided into 13 hectares of Syrah, 2.5 hectares of Marsanne and 1.5 hectares of Roussanne. Everything is vinified in their new cuverie, built to accommodate the 2013 harvest. This wine is manually harvested, in cold storage for 12 months and matured in French barrels for 12 months.
