Alcohol: 14.5 %
Grape(s): 100% Syrah
Location: Cotes du Rhone, Southern Rhone, France
Tasting Notes: Deep, saturated purple. Peppery bacon fat and violet lift over blackberry, black plum and mint; full and mouth-filling with rounded tannin, fresh acidity and a savory, mineral-edged finish that keeps the ripeness in check.
Notes: Old-vine Syrah from the estate's holdings in the southern Rhone, hand-harvested, whole-cluster fermented and raised in used oak foudres and concrete, with no new wood. Chateau de Saint Cosme farms biodynamically.
Food Pairing: Grilled lamb, braised daube, roast chicken, charcuterie, aged hard cheeses.
Winery Story: Chateau de Saint Cosme sits on Gallo-Roman cellars in Gigondas, one of the oldest estates in the southern Rhone. Louis Barruol is the 14th generation of his family to make wine here, and he has become one of the region's reference point vignerons, working organically and biodynamically across old-vine parcels in Gigordas, Vinsobres and the Cotes du Rhone.
