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Crozes Hermitage Clos les Cornirets Vieilles Vignes 2008 Domaine
Crozes Hermitage Clos les Cornirets Vieilles Vignes 2008 Domaine
Bottle Price: £19.95
Case Price: £227.4
- Country: France
- Region: Rhone-Alpes
- Grape Variety: Syrah
- Alcohol: 13%
- Bottle Size: 75cl
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You can mix any 12 bottles of wine(or more) to get the ‘case price’ for each bottle.
Meaty, perfumed rich, expressive elegant dark fruits with hints of vanilla, broom and leather. Olives and blackberry flavours make it powerful and harmonious.
Have with: roasted meats, lamb and beef - dried and cured hams
Cave Fayolle - Crozes Hermitage, Rhône
Situated in Gervans, of all the villages in Crozes Hermitage closest to Hermitage itself, this family domaine holds some of the most-sought after plots in the Appellation, but it wasn’t until Laurent Fayolle and his sister took over the reins from their father that standards took a distinct up-turn in quality.
Laurent studied oenology at Montpellier and made his first vintage in 2000. We first tasted his wines from barrel in 2002 and even then, in his first couple of vintages, there proved to be a major distinction from the wines that went before. Newer techniques and outlook are paying dividends with exciting wines reappearing from areas of the vineyard which had fallen by the wayside.
An area of world famous vineyards which starts south of Lyon at Ampuis and runs down to the Côtes de Provence. Grape types include Grenache, Syrah, Mourvédre, Cinsault, Marsanne and Roussanne and these produce wines of immense pedigree and quality, including the dark purple Côte Rotie wines and the fruity Viognier.
The Northern Rhône is characterised by a continental climate with harsh winters but warm summers. Its climate is influenced by the mistral wind, which brings colder air from the Massif Central. Northern Rhône is therefore cooler than southern Rhône, which means that the mix of planted grape varieties and wine styles are slightly different.
Syrah is the only red grape variety permitted in red AOC wines from this sub-region. For wines bearing the Cornas AOC designation, Syrah must be used exclusively, whereas other reds from the northern Rhône sub-region may be blended with white wine grapes, either Viognier or Marsanne and Roussanne, depending on the appellation.
However, while this is allowed by the AOC rules, blending with white grapes is only widely practiced for Côte-Rôtie.
Viognier by itself is used for white wines from Condrieu and Château-Grillet. Marsanne and Roussanne are in turn used for the whites from Crozes-Hermitage, Hermitage, Saint Joseph, and Saint Péray.
From north to south the appellations in the northern Rhône are:
• Côte-Rôtie AOC - reds of Syrah and up to 20% Viognier.
• Condrieu AOC - whites of Viognier only.
• Château-Grillet AOC - whites of Viognier.
• Saint-Joseph AOC - reds of Syrah and up to 10% Marsanne and Roussanne; whites of only Marsanne and Roussanne.
• Crozes-Hermitage AOC - reds of Syrah and up to 15% Marsanne and Roussanne; whites of only Marsanne and Roussanne.
• Hermitage AOC - reds of Syrah and up to 15% Marsanne and Roussanne; whites of only Marsanne and Roussanne.
• Cornas AOC - reds of Syrah only.
• Saint-Péray AOC - sparkling and still whites of only Marsanne and Roussanne.
Northern Rhône reds are often identified by their signature aromas of green olive and smoky bacon
