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Jean-Claude et Nicolas Fayolle Crozes-Hermitage Rouge La Rochette 2015
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| Country: | France |
| Regions: | Rhone Crozes Hermitage |
| Winery: | Jean-Claude et Nicolas Fayolle |
| Grape Type: | Syrah |
| Vintage: | 2015 |
| Bottle Size: | 750 ml |
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Product Description
Jean-Claude et Nicolas Fayolle Crozes-Hermitage Rouge La Rochette 2015 is made from 25-year-old vines planted on loess and red granitic soils. 100% Syrah.
Wine was bottled in September 2016.
Deep ruby red color.
The wine has plenty to offer with red and black fruit aromas, as well as a good minerality.
The finish is long, clean and juicy and offers some white pepper spiciness typical of the best Crozes-Hermitage.
Soil type is red brittle granite and white soil.
Hand harvested in small crates. The grapes are then pumped into tanks (full cluster, not destemmed).
It will stay in this tank for 15 days for the skin contact maceration and the Alcoholic fermentation.
They will also use the "rack and return" technique (delestage).
Then the wine is transfered into neutral French Oak barrels where the wine will complete the Malo-Lactic fermentation.
Review:
"A big step up in quality (for not much step up in price), the 2015 Crozes-Hermitage La Rochette comes from slightly more granite soils and spent 12-15 months in neutral barrels. It has beautiful purity of fruit as well as classic notes of ripe black fruits, bloody meat, saddle leather, peppery herbs, and some telltale minerality. Medium to full-bodied, concentrated, and textured, it’s a rock star of a Crozes Hermitage to drink over the coming decade or so."
- Jeb Dunnuck (March 27th 2019), 93 pts
Winery: Jean-Claude et Nicolas Fayolle
Jean-Claude et Nicolas Fayolle Estate
Nicolas Fayolle represents the 3rd generation. His father, Jean-Claude, helped convert the Estate from Apricot to Grape growing.
Date Founded: 1958
Owner: Jean-Claude and Nicolas Fayolle
Winery Philosophy: All our vineyards are tended and harvested manually due to the incline of the slopes. We also limit treatment of the vines to better manage soil erosion. Our “cuvees” are issued for specific parcels in our vineyards and we neither destem nor use new oak barrels to preserve each “cuvee’s” specificity.
The estate was founded by Nicolas' grand-father Jules Fayolle in 1958.
Nicolas is the 3rd generation in this family owned estate.
Nicolas has a degree in "Viticulture- Oenologie" and "Commercial science". He studied in the Macon region and joined the family estate in 2003
Winery Acreage: 17.36 acres (7 hectares)
Winery Production: 2000 / 9L cases
Varietals Produced: Syrah and Marsanne
Winemaker: Nicolas Fayolle
7 hectares total:
4 hectares of Crozes Hermitage Rouge in the lieu dit "En Rochettes"
2 hectares of Crozes Hermitage Blanc in the lieu dit "En Rochettes"
0.8 hectares of Hermitage Rouge in the lieu dit "Les Donnières"
0.2 hectares of Hermitage Blanc in the lieu dit "Les Donnières"
Soil is mainly Loess, Red granit, granit from the former Rhone river bed.
80% of the vineyards are located on steep hills and terraces.
Hand harvest.
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This is a 6 pack with 2 bottles each from vintages from 2013, 2015, and 2016.
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