St Julien En St Alban Syrah Eric Texier
| Vintage: | 2018 |
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| Description: | Winemaker Notes\r\n\r\n\r\nInky ruby in color with a highly perfumed bouquet of dark fruit preserves with a bright floral quality. The wine finishes with silky tannins and lingering smokiness.\r\nAbout Eric Texier\r\nEric Texier became a winemaker after a first career and without any family background in vines or wines. As such, his goals and methods developed not so much from his years of schooling, but from his readings, his visiting winemakers around the world, and working in Burgundy with Jean-Marie Guffens at Verget.\r\n\r\nAfter giving up the idea of buying vineyards, which was too costly a proposition for a beginner with his ambitions, he started a small n\u00e9goce where he selected particularly interesting vineyard plots and the sincere, hard-working farmers who grew the healthy grapes he wanted to buy and vinify. He rediscovered nearly forgotten areas of ancient fame, like Br\u00e9z\u00e8me in the northern C\u00f4tes-du-Rh\u00f4ne, and nurtured relationships with people who tend their vines with passion and care. He has since acquired plots in C\u00f4te R\u00f4tie and Condrieu in the northern Rh\u00f4ne, and replanted several hectares in Br\u00e9z\u00e8me, with Syrah and Roussanne.\r\nThat\u2019s how he came to produce about 30 different wines, from 10 different origins, from Bussi\u00e8res in the M\u00e2connais to the northern Rh\u00f4ne and the southern C\u00f4tes-du-Rh\u00f4ne. The wines are vinified in their areas of production, which means a lot of juggling tasks and traveling at the time of harvest. When they have obtained their Aoc, the young wines are transported to Charnay-en-Beaujolais, just north of Lyon, where Eric lives and has recently acquired a wonderful \u00e9levage cellar. This beautiful underground vaulted cellar was built in the 16th century, and temperatures stay cool and stable through the year.\r\nLike all good winemakers, Eric strongly believes that wines are made in the vineyard, and that his work, after the harvest, consists in following the lead of the vintage, and accompanying the wines so they fulfill their potential. Exact steps in vinification vary according to the varietals, terroirs and vintages, but the goal is always to provide the grapes, musts and wines with the best environment and intervene as little as possible.\r\nHis techniques for white wines include sorting in the vines and at the winery, whole clusters pressed in a vertical press (that\u2019s the old fashioned wood kind), no added yeasts, barrel fermentation (less than 10% new wood), aging on fine lees, malolactic fermentation for all dry wines, minimal use of So2, no pumping, fining and filtration only when absolutely necessary.\r\nFor his red wines, he does the same sorting at harvest, 100% destemming most of the time, bringing the grapes to the press by conveyer belts, cold maceration under a Co2 blanket for aromatic extraction, natural yeasts, pigeage and remontage twice a day, during maceration and fermentation. The temperatures are controlled not to exceed 34 degrees C (93f), aging is done in 2 to 5 year old barrels of 228l and demi-muids of 450l, with only limited use of new oak, no filtration and egg white fining only when necessary.\r\nA Bordeaux native who has lived in or around Lyon since 1979, Eric is a jovial, energetic and fun-loving person who wants his wines to make their drinkers happy. He\u2019s always looking to innovate, and, since he loves German wines, he started emulating them in 2005 by vinifying Viognier grapes from Condrieu as if they were Riesling. \u00d4 P\u00e2le is 8 degrees of alcohol, sweet and light, with fresh acidity and delicate aromas. Unfortunately, in 2006 his Viognier grapes ripened so quickly that most were already too high in sugar when he started the harvest, and this delicious and whimsical wine is going to be even harder to acquire. |
| Price: | $ 27.99 |
| Price in original currency: | None |
Available from BASSER’S Fine Wine
| Address: |
6240 Coral Ridge Drive Coral Springs, FL 33076 United States |
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| Telephone (regular): | 954-840-3122 |
First added to 1000 Corks on June 3, 2022.
