Rhône Valley
Dard & Ribo
Saint Joseph Blanc "Pitrou" - 2019 - Dard et Ribo
A complex and exuberant nose of ripe fruit, pear compote, Mirabelle plum, and elderberry... Palate: this is dense and mineralesque juice, with beautiful bitter notes and a lingering finish.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Saint-Joseph
- Degree of alcohol
- 14 %
- To drink from
- 2020 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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A blend of Roussanne with a little Marsanne, both grape varieties coming from old vines farmed organically and planted on slopes with decomposed granite soils. Vinified with respect for the grapes, as always with these two vignerons: direct pressing, indigenous yeasts, maturation in 500- and 600-litre demi-muid barrels. Blended in August and bottled in September 2020, without fining or filtration, and zero sulphur.

René-Jean Dard & François Ribo
René-Jean Dard and François Ribo, two famously reserved vignerons from Mercurol, north of Valence, founded their estate in 1984. Started from just a single hectare, the estate is today composed of 9 hectares of vines, with parcels in the appellations of Saint-Joseph, Crozes-Hermitage and Hermitage. The wines produced are always of uniform quality, with tremendous work put into their single...
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