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| Drinking window: Drink between 2015 and 2024 (based on 25 user opinions) |
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| Community Tasting Notes (average 89.7 pts. and median of 89 pts. in 3 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by Blacksmith450 on 2/10/2019 & rated 89 points: Très bien fait mais intense et massif. Malgré la carafe, il est resté d'un bloc. À attendre. (1405 views) | | | Tasted by DamienT on 1/11/2013 & rated 89 points: Nez sympa, mêlant des notes poivrées, cacaotées, et de fruits (cerise, mure)
En bouche, on retrouve un vin alliant subtilement puissance et finesse. Le vin est bien fait et pourra probablement tenir de nombreuses années.
Il ne m'a pas semblé très caractéristique des côtes rôties mais je ne connais pas encore très bien cette appellation. (1882 views) |
| Domaine Pichat Producer website
Domaine Pichat started small. Very small, in fact. The family farmed their ancestral two hectares for many years without offering their own wines, but that all changed when they finally sold 900 bottles of the 2000 vintage. Now composed of 5 hectares of vineyards in the crus of Champon, Cognet, Plomb, Fongeant, Gerine, and Grandes Places in Côte-Rôtie and La Caille for Condrieu, Domaine Pichat sells little more than 20,000 bottles a year. Each parcel is farmed according to the unique needs of its terroir, with the sole purpose being to produce healthy and ripe grapes expressive of their location. Domaine Pichat does not use pesticides, and selects all of their vineyard treatments carefully and with respect to the land.
The winery is equipped with thermo-controlled stainless steel vats for vinification and 400L oak barrels of varying ages for the maturing process, thus combining modern and traditional fermentation techniques. They are replaced at different rates depending on the precise characteristics of each cuvée. The Côte-Rôtie "Champon's" from brown schist soil is aged 24 months in 30 to 40% of new barrels while the Condrieu from sand and alluvial silt is aged 9 to 12 months in up to 30% new barrels.Syrah Varietal article (Wikipedia) | (Wines Northwest)
Note that some producers in the Northern Rhone distinguish between simply Syrah and "Serine", the latter described as ‘an ancient clone of Syrah, the berries of which are more oval-shaped and less deeply pigmented than Syrah’ by producer Tardieu-Laurent. France Vins de France (Office National Interprofessionnel des Vins ) | Pages Vins, Directory of French Winegrowers | French Wine (Wikipedia)
Wine Scholar Guild vintage ratings
2018 vintage: "marked by a wet spring, a superb summer and a good harvest"
2019 vintage reports
2021: "From a general standpoint, whether for white, rosé or red wines, 2021 is a year marked by quality in the Rhône Valley Vineyards. Structured, elegant, fresh and fruity will be the main keywords for this new vintage."
2022 harvest: idealwine.info | wine-searcher.comRhône Guide to the wines, wineries and appellations in the Rhone Valley The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
### Wine Scholar Guild's Rhône valley vintage charts & ratings ###Northern Rhône Guide to the wines and appellations of the Northern Rhone Valley -
The Rhône Valley/Le Vins de la Vallée du Rhône (Comité Interprofession des vins AOC Côtes et vallée du Rhône)
Regional History:
Phocaean Greeks established viticulture in the Rhone as far back as 600 BC, but until the 14th century the wines were not seen outside the region. The establishment of the Avignonese Papacy (1305-1377) brought fame to the region's wine-so much so that their Burgundian neighbors to the north banned wines from the Rhone in 1446, a measure that effectively cut off trade with England and other Northern European markets for over 200 years. Stretching southward from Lyon to just south of Avignon, the Rhone produces a wide variety of wines, with the appellations north of Valence producing the least (in volume), and the towns south of Montelimar producing prodigious amounts. As in other regions, the most interesting wines come from small farms. Saint-Joseph, in the northern Rhone, extends for some distance between Condrieu in the north to Saint-Peray in the south. The reds are made from Syrah and the rare whites from Marsanne and Roussanne, and Viognier.
### 2017 vintage ###
"The first red wines already tasted in the Northern Rhône promise a beautiful vintage, with a quality close to the 2015 or even the 2009 vintage" - NEWRHÔNE MILLESIMESCôte-Rôtie Guide to Cote Rotie - Read about the Northern Rhone Valley
• The Appellation cover three communes - Saint-Cyr-sur-Rhône, Ampuis and Tupin-Semons - on the right Rhône river bank, within the Rhône "département".
• Soils : In the northern part of the vineyard, the Côte Brune, consists of extremely steep, terraced slopes of ferruginous mica schists which are covered with schist sand (arzel).The Côte Blonde has a varied geology with gneiss and granite predominating at the most southern side of the appellation.
• Climate : tempered continental. Dry, hot summers and frequent rainfalls during the other seasons. History : one of the oldest vineyards in France, first developed by the Romans. It is said that during the Middle Ages, "The Seigneur de Maugiron" bequeathed a hillside to each of his daughters, one was brunette and the other fair. Thus, were born the names of "Côte Brune" and "Côte Blonde".
• Area planted : 230 hectares (568 acres), for an annual production of 8,400 hectoliters (93,333 cases). Authorized maximum yield is 40 hectoliters/hectare (2,3 US tons/acre).
• Grape Varieties : Syrah (80% minimum). An addition of up to 20% of Viognier grapes in the crop is allowed.
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