2010 St Joseph Rouge, Domaine Christophe Pichon

2010 St Joseph Rouge, Domaine Christophe Pichon

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2010 St Joseph Rouge, Domaine Christophe Pichon

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The Pichons only own 2 hectares of St Joseph, but they are made up of high-quality 70 year old Syrah vines, farmed at high density on steep slopes located to the south of Tournon. Traditional fermentation is followed by maturation in one-to-four year old barrels. The wine is market by pure red berry flavours and a kick of black pepper at the back. Not to be sneezed at.
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer, February 2012

Christophe and Isabelle Pichon, apart from the rigours of bringing up six young children, also farm 10 hectares spread over the appellations of Côte Rôtie, Condrieu and St Joseph. The wines have improved dramatically over the last few years, the drama being all the more compelling as they were pretty good to start with. Minimum intervention, cold soaks and judicious oak all play their part in instilling focus and a sense of place.

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Domaine Pichon

Domaine Pichon

Christophe and Isabelle Pichon, apart from the small matter of bringing up six children, also farm 10 hectares spread over the wine appellations of Côte Rôtie, Condrieu and St Joseph.

Nearly 4 hectares of this are in Condrieu, to the South of the appellation, in the commune of Chavanay. Condrieu, with its distinctive granitic terraced vineyards, is still perceived as the source of the best Viognier wines in the world, wines of incredible richness and a texture which afford the reviewer/taster little alternative but to use vocabulary from the more sensuous and decadent end of the spectrum!

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Syrah/Shiraz

Syrah/Shiraz

A noble black grape variety grown particularly in the Northern Rhône where it produces the great red wines of Hermitage, Cote Rôtie and Cornas, and in Australia where it produces wines of startling depth and intensity. Reasonably low yields are a crucial factor for quality as is picking at optimum ripeness. Its heartland, Hermitage and Côte Rôtie, consists of 270 hectares of steeply terraced vineyards producing wines that brim with pepper, spices, tar and black treacle when young. After 5-10 years they become smooth and velvety with pronounced fruit characteristics of damsons, raspberries, blackcurrants and loganberries.

It is now grown extensively in the Southern Rhône where it is blended with Grenache and Mourvèdre to produce the great red wines of Châteauneuf du Pape and Gigondas amongst others. Its spiritual home in Australia is the Barossa Valley, where there are plantings dating as far back as 1860. Australian Shiraz tends to be sweeter than its Northern Rhône counterpart and the best examples are redolent of new leather, dark chocolate, liquorice, and prunes and display a blackcurrant lusciousness.

South African producers such as Eben Sadie are now producing world- class Shiraz wines that represent astonishing value for money.

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