An ultra-rare grape variety, endemic to this part of Savoie, with intense cherry notes and a touch of driftwood. On the palate: a very fine structure, delicate lacework of fruit, great length on kirsch-like cherry notes, and a tangy finish marked by minerality. Unique!
100% Etraire de la Dhui, a very late-ripening grape variety with many spellings but a single origin: the Grésivaudan Valley. An abandoned variety replanted by Laurent, this cuvée comes from 2,000 square metres of 90-year-old vines and 1 hectare of younger vines aged 5 to 15 years, all organically farmed and planted across four parcels with limestone scree, schist slabs and glacial moraine soils. Vinification: 70% destemmed, 5 days of maceration, pressing, then 10 months ageing in barrels that have seen several wines.
Laurent Fondimare and Wilfrid Debroize are the duo behind Domaine des Rutissons, based in Saint-Vincent-de-Mercuze in the Grésivaudan Valley (the Grenoble valley) in Savoie. Laurent, an agricultural engineer originally from Normandy, took over the estate in 2010 when it was still a polycultural farm with livestock; he shifted its focus entirely to viticulture and began by taking over a few...
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Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
Organic or biodynamic wine
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