2020 M. Chapoutier “Les Meysonniers”, Crozes-Hermitage Rouge, Rhône Valley, FranceABOUT THIS WINE: The 2020 Les Meysonniers is made primarily from Syrah grapes sourced from the heart of the Crozes Hermitage appellation. The wine undergoes fermentation in stainless steel to preserve its fresh fruit character and is aged for 12 months in a combination of concrete tanks and oak barrels. Bottled in early 2022, it offers a refined and approachable expression of the Crozes Hermitage terroir. ABOUT THIS PRODUCER: M. Chapoutier is a

making them one of the leading Premier Cru specialists in the appellation

Vines planted in 1987

In 2018 the Railsback brothers began making Cabernet Sauvignon with the Murphy family and Dieter Cronje at Presqu’ile Winery and bottled it as a private label for a New York City Michelin-starred restaurant

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moderately deep land that produces long and rich wines

making regularly pumping over and delestage operations to favor the contact of the must with the skins and extract slowly the aromas and the phenolic compounds

a theologian

Ample rainfall in the winter allows most of the vineyard to be dry-farmed each year

full-bodied and rock solid at the core

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François and Manuela Chidaine

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