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Always a smoking value, the 2020 Ctes Du Rhne (70/30 Grenache and Syrah) has a medium-bodied, balanced, elegant, and incredibly charming style loaded with ripe black and red cherry fruits as well as notes of garrigue and flowers. Its impeccably made and best drunk over the coming 5-7 years.

Powerful on the nose; aromas of red fruit, sweet spice and garrigue scents; medium to full-bodied wine with great power, fine tannins, great finish with licorice notes. Pair with rich poultry dishes.

Color: Red
Grapes: 70% Syrah and 30% Grenache
Soil: terraces of pebbles, sand, marl with iron
presence
Age of Vines: 20-30 years old
Farming practices: organic
Yeast: indigenous
Fermentation: Spontaneous fermentation in concrete tanks
Aging: 12 months in concrete tanks
Production: 20,000 bottles per year

About the Winery

Maison M. Chapoutier began in 1808, and has since expanded into an internationally recognized domaine. Michel Chapoutier is a passionate hard-working winemaker and charismatic figure from Frances Northern Rhne valley. Since taking over the business in 1990, Michel has achieved world recognition for his work of excellence and relentless search for the finest terroirs, as well as for pioneering biodynamic viticulture in the Rhne Valley before it became a trend.

His passion for both wine and gastronomy led him to meet two 3-Michelin-Star chefs, with whom he created the Chefs Range of Northern Rhone wines:

Anne-Sophie Pic began her career in the front of the house of her familys restaurant, Maison Pic. Her fathers untimely death and the subsequent loss of their third Michelin star spurred her to take the helm of the kitchen, despite having no formal culinary training. She eventually won back her familys third star, being only the fourth female chef to ever earn three stars.

Yannick Allno, by contrast, started working in kitchens when he was 15 years old, apprenticing under the greats of the time. He eventually won first prize in the Auguste Escoffier competition, and silver in the prestigious Bocuse dOr in 1999, and eventually took over the kitchen at the two-star Le Meurice, where he earned a third star in 2007. Today his influential restaurants span the globe, with outposts from Paris to the Middle east and east Asia.

True trailblazers in their field, each chef worked individually with M. Chapoutier to select vineyards and parcels from the prestigious appellations of Cornas, St. Joseph, St. Peray and Crozes-hermitage, with the mission and passion to produce world-class gastronomic wines.