Rhône Valley
A complex nose, with notes of raspberry and cherry, evolving into aromas of leather, pepper and liquorice. The palate is light and delicate, with exquisitely fine tannins, a long finish, and lingering notes of kirsch and cocoa. In the winemakers’ words: "fruit, elegance and precision".
A blend of 75% Grenache and 25% Carignan, from the estate’s oldest vines (65-year-old). The vines are cultivated biodynamically and planted on white, Miocene epoch limestone, which promotes slow ripening. Harvested by hand, the two grape varieties are vinified together, matured one year with 2/3 in old barrels and 1/3 in enamelled steel vats, then blended and stabilised for 6 months in vats, before a final year of maturation 100% in enamelled steel vats. The wine is neither fined nor filtered, and is bottled with a sensible dose of sulphites.
Florence and Olivier Leriche, partners in life and in the vineyard, are the winemakers behind Domaine des Accoles, a 20-hectare biodynamic estate in Saint-Marcel d'Ardèche. Accoles (which means terraces in the ancient Occitan language) was founded in 2011, but the talented duo had already made a name for themselves in the wine world much earlier. After studies in agricultural engineering in...
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Sulphites-free wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Sulphites-free wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
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