2020 Rouchier Saint-Joseph La Chave, Rhone, France Trail Marker and caramel on the nose

and caramel on the nose

The grapes are harvested together and come from an 80 year old parcel characterized by a particular terroir where the soil is formed scree limestone and red marl

The soils are a range of alluvial sand and gravel and feature Dolomitic limestone

There after the grapes were gently extracted by a combination of pumping over and pigeage by foot

2020 Rouchier Saint-Joseph La Chave, Rhone, France Trail Marker and caramel on the noseChave is a 1 hectare lieu dit planted with vines dating to 1958. With Western exposition, Chave lies on soil dominated by granitic gneiss. Whole cluster fermentation in concrete over indigenous yeasts, punctuated with pigeage (punching down) and remontage (pumping over). The young wine is then aged over for 16 18 months in neutral (5 9 years) oak barrels of 228L . The finished wine is then bottled unfiltered and entirely without SO2