Rhône Valley
Beaulieu - 2022 - Château de la Selve
Florence & Benoît Chazallon
A few words from the Château: ‘Ruby robe, nose combining cooked red fruits, spices, undergrowth; ample palate with polished tannins, length on the aromas of the nose.’ The texture is very velvety, fruity, supple, and long.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Ardèche IGP
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2036
- rock’n’roll
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Blend of 50% Cabernet Sauvignon, 25% Grenache, 20% Cinsault, and 5% Syrah from 30-year-old vines grown organically and biodynamically, planted at altitudes between 110 and 161 meters on clay-limestone soils, covering a total of 6 hectares. Minimal intervention vinification: native yeasts, vatting of the grapes for 40 days of maceration in tanks with daily dynamisation. 12 months of ageing, half in 750-liter amphorae and half in 228-liter barrels, that have seen 0 to 5 wines. Unfined, unfiltered, 20 mg/l of total SO2.

Florence et Benoît Chazallon
Florence and Benoît Chazallon, partners in life and in the vines, run Château de la Selve, a 13th-century estate in Grospierres, Ardèche. Benoît was almost destined to become a winemaker, coming from the great Rhône Valley family of growers, the Delas. He spent much of his teenage years among the vines and cellars of the Rhône. Florence is an oenologist, and together they took over this family...
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