About this WINE
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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Made from old-vine Syrah from Mauves itself, in addition to the villages of Sarras and St Jean de Muzols, the Offerus gets better and better. Penetrating floral aromatics and a generous, energetic palate are complimented by a firm strand of mineral acidity and fine, sinewy tannins.
Simon Field MW, BBR Buyer
Jean-Louis Chave makes sublime Hermitage. Indeed his family have been doing so since 1483, which makes Berry Bros. & Rudd, founded in 1698, appear somewhat arriviste by comparison. What is perhaps a little less known is that the domaine is actually located in Mauves, in the heart of St Joseph, and the furtherance of the understanding and appreciation of this under-rated appellation is one of Jean-Louis’ most pressing concerns.
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