{"product_id":"domaine-aleofane-saint-joseph-2024","title":"Domaine Aleofane Saint Joseph 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\u003eSyrah\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 Saint Joseph, 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; font-family: Verdana;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTasting notes: \u003c\/strong\u003eThe wine has the typical aromatic plants found in the south of France (thyme, rosemary) with notes of cassis, red cherries, and rose petals, as well as hints of turmeric and white pepper.\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\u003eNotes: \u003c\/b\u003eThe wine is aged in oak adding some smooth and silky tannins.\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":43960608358657,"sku":"23570","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0149\/9247\/4212\/files\/aleo--1_d09df8b9-cbb6-4fc6-b835-3b79696c0848.png?v=1773078540","url":"https:\/\/arrowine.com\/products\/domaine-aleofane-saint-joseph-2024","provider":"Arrowine \u0026 Cheese","version":"1.0","type":"link"}