{"product_id":"domaine-aleofane-crozes-hermitage-blanc-natacha-chave-2024","title":"Domaine Aleofane Crozes Hermitage Blanc Natacha Chave 2024","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlcohol:\u003c\/b\u003e 13%\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrape(s): \u003c\/b\u003e60% Marsanne and 40% Roussanne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocalization:\u003c\/b\u003e Crozes-Hermitage, Northern Rhone Valley, France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eTasting notes:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e There is a delightful floral edge to the wine with spicy notes on the palate along with jasmine, candied citrus fruit, iris root and cardamon. This is a very limited parcel so grab it whilst you can.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Domain:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eAfter passing her Baccalauréat, Natacha decided to study for a master’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003edegree in philosophy. The subject of her Masters was: Animal Metaphors \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eFound in Nietzsche. However, for many years Natacha had the desire to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003emake wine. Her parents realized their dream of making wine in the 1970s, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eestablishing a small winery in Crozes-Hermitage. Her brother later took \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eover the Domaine that they created. She didn’t like the limitations that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003ewould go along with joining her brother. Natacha wanted her \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eindependence, and to make her own wine from beginning to end. She also \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003ewanted to make wine in the region in which she grew up, the Northern \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eRhône. Natacha has a deep love for the grape Syrah, especially from the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eNorthern Rhône, where she believes the perfect expression of pure Syrah is found. In 2004 Natacha bought her first parcel of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eSaint-Joseph. She found a nice 1.3 hectare (3.2 acres) hillside plot in the heart of Saint-Joseph, Tournon sur Rhône. In 2007 she \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003ewas able to buy a small, old vines, plot in Crozes-Hermitage, to which she has added some new plantings as well.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 11px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eThe name Aléofane comes from the name of a fictional island in the book “Riallaro, the Archipelago of Exiles”, by John \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eMacMillan Brown (1846-1935). Natacha found that some of the situations that Mr. MacMillan described in his book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003ecorresponded, in great detail, to the controversies surrounding wine in our own society. While wine is considered a source of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003econviviality, it is simultaneously subject to very strict laws. In the City of Aléofane fermented beverages, like wine, were \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003econsidered both diabolical and healing. There, wine was prescribed by doctors. In some ways MacMillan’s writing was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003evisionary, almost predicting the modern medical view regarding the health benefits of wine. In his book, the people of Aléofane \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eprized, above all, truth. In their own language, Aléofane meant “the gem of truth”. It \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003edoesn’t seem at all coincidental that for millennia people have been saying “in vino \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003everitas” (in wine there is truth). With her Aléofane Saint-Joseph, Natacha has found \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eher own “gem of truth”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eNatacha is meticulous with her vines. She works very hard to keep her vines healthy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eand limits yields. None of the work she does in the vines can be mechanized due to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003esteep configuration of this vineyard. Natacha, therefore, has to do all of this work by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003ehand. Natacha is very interested in using only natural products in the vines that help \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003ethe vine build up its own natural defenses. Since 2006 she has used a treatment made \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eof seeds from a plant, fenugreek (used in Indian and Thai cooking), that causes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eresistance in the vine to an attack of odium. She also uses an experimental treatment \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"\u003eagainst mildew made from yucca, chitin, and tea tree oil.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Free Run","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43389855138049,"sku":"21323","price":44.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0149\/9247\/4212\/files\/aleofane-blanc--1_14da9ec2-1f8d-40c1-9099-9adbaf98c56d.png?v=1772191305","url":"https:\/\/arrowine.com\/products\/domaine-aleofane-crozes-hermitage-blanc-natacha-chave-2024","provider":"Arrowine \u0026 Cheese","version":"1.0","type":"link"}