Rhône Valley
Solera - 2011 tirage 2024 - Château de la Selve
Florence & Benoît Chazallon
A sweet wine with an intense nose of pear, baked apple, and eau-de-vie fruits, yet surprisingly fresh and fruity overall. The palate is round, silky, still powerful, with 100 grams per liter of residual sugar.
- Size
- 50 cl
- Original features
- Wine without added sulfites
- Designation
- Vin de Liqueur
- Degree of alcohol
- 17 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2045
- rock’n’roll
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100% Viognier from 15-year-old vines farmed organically and biodynamically, planted on a sandstone parcel covered with 25 cm of clay, along the Chassezac river, at 110 meters altitude. Harvested at the beginning of ripeness, fermented with indigenous yeasts and fortified with alcohol during fermentation. Aged in 700-liter foudres using the Solera method, begun in 2011, with 20% of the total Solera drawn off each year, here on October 10th, 2024. Unfined, lightly filtered, no added sulfites.

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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