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Domaine de Rochepertuis
Jean and Veronique Lionnet have 10 hectares of vines in Cornas and 2.5 hectares in St. Péray. Jean took over the domaine from his father in 1978 and has been heavily influenced by his friend and neighbour Jean-Luc Colombo in his winemaking style. Rochepertuis is his top wine and is named after a craggy rock in the vineyards.
Yields are low for Cornas and the fruit is 100% destemmed prior to fermentation. The wine is then matured for 12 months in barriques, 20% of which are new. The wine oozes sweet, concentrated black fruits and are classic examples of the new wave wines being produced in Cornas today.
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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Jean Lionnet took over from his father in 1978 and has been heavily influenced by his friend and neighbour Jean-Luc Colombo in making modern, fruit-driven Cornas. Rochepertuis is his top wine, named after a craggy rock in the vineyards. This is particularly impressive with rich, concentrated black fruit and a classic Cornas structure.
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