2009 St Joseph Rouge, Préface, Domaine Pierre-Jean Villa

2009 St Joseph Rouge, Préface, Domaine Pierre-Jean Villa

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2009 St Joseph Rouge, Préface, Domaine Pierre-Jean Villa

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Description

Made from 25-year-old vines vinified in second-hand Burgundian casks, this has sweet fruit with a nose that becomes clean and pure with blueberries and cherry to the fore. Clean tannins and an almost Pinot Noir finish signal a perceptive volte face. This is long and focused on the finish.

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Jancis Robinson MW16.5+/20
A whiff of glue at first and then, slowly, an unfurling of richly purple mulberry fruit. Sweet and yielding. Tension and minerality, a real spine here. Gleaming polished tannins. So fresh, practically snapping to attention and spruced up and ready to go. A very refreshing drink.
(Jancis Robinson, Julia Harding MW & Tamlyn Currin- jancisrobinson.com, 19 Nov 2010) Read more

About this WINE

Domaine Pierre-Jean Villa

Domaine Pierre-Jean Villa

Pierre Jean Villa is a talented Rhone winemaker, producing terroir-driven, balanced wines with ample fruit and delightful complexity. 

Aside the work at his boutique winery, Pierre Jean Villa has been one of the founding members of the negociant house Les Vins de Vienne since 2003. Villa, together with Francois Villard, Yves Cuilleron, and Pierre Gaillard regenerated a number of very old vineyards in Northern Rhone to produce a range of excellent wines.

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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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