$100.00
The 2021 is a beautifully cool and compact manifestation of this slice of Crozes, with JBS’s trademark purity, freshness and balance. Once again, this cuvée was fermented as whole cluster and was raised for 14 months in mature casks.
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For growers like Jean-Baptiste, weather is just one part of the puzzle. The sites are critical: old, deep-rooted, low-yielding vines on cool, slow-ripening rocky slopes facing east. The wines ferment wild and slow in Souillard’s cold cellars, with a decreasing proportion of bunches for the reds—Souillard is chasing definition here—and plenty of oxygen exposure for the whites. Importantly, JBS now prefers two winters in barrel, which provides greater clarity and stability—oh so important when you prefer low sulphur levels and don’t filter. If you haven’t tried them yet, the wines are beautifully consistent: always supple, precise, detailed and perfumed with a common thread of freshness and athletic shape. You’ll find no bombastic beasties here, just delicious, old-school classics (but modern, you know?) composed by a Northern Rhône icon-in-waiting.
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