Description
The Duclaux brothers make just five barrels of their top wine from vines planted in 1943 (also 1920s and 1980) at the southern end of the appellation on a punishingly steep, higher slope where the soil is mainly gneiss with a little granite. Here the vineyard is only planted with a massal selection of the low yielding ‘petite sérine’ strain of syrah. Destalked 80% and given a three-week maceration, it was aged in 40% new oak up to 5yo, mainly fûts with a few demi-muids. A darker colour than La Germine it offers a cool blueberry fruit with some liquorice, menthol and tar, and there is a real ‘noblesse’ to the fine-grained tannins with herbal bitters on the finish. For drinking to 2035.
13.5% / 75cl
