Producer
The owners of stellar burgundy micro-négociant Lucien Le Moine have a side project: they have bought a number of vineyards in the Southern Rhône. The style is fascinating and unique – very much Châteauneuf viewed through the prism of burgundy. The flavours are of course those of Grenache (white or red), but structurally, in their combination of delicacy and power, there is more than a little of the Côte d’Or grand cru about these wines.
Vineyard
This wine comes from the Saoumas’ own vineyards in the vicinity of Orange. All of the grapes are picked by hand, with yields of less than 20 hl/ha.
Winery
After a week of cold maceration, the wine was fermented, then aged on lees for twenty months in a mixture of thirty-hectolitre foudres, concrete eggs, and 500-litre demi-muids.
