Rhône Valley
Babiole - 2022 - Andrea Calek
Andréa Calek
Pure fruit juice – fresh and mouthwatering, with notes of cranberries, old rum, and spices. It’s lively and ever evolving in the glass, with notes of quinine. The palate is fluid anf highly digestable.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Sulfite-free
- Appellation
- Vin de France
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2027
- rock’n’roll
A blended cuvée: 70% Syrah and 30% Grenache Noir, from vines farmed organically and planted on clay-limestone soils. Natural vinification without additives: short mecaration, no carbonic for this vintage, with a low temperature fermentation: 16°C, aging in vats. This cuvée has been marketed through different bottling: here it's not the primeur anymore, but the bottling from the 4th of April 2023. Unfiltered, unfined, and zero added sulphur.
Andrea Calek
Andréa Calek was trained by the Rohel brothers in the Rhône and by Dominique Hauvette in Baux de Provence. Our globetrotting Czech then laid down his hat in Alba-la-Romaine, 10 km East of Montélimar, in the heart of the Ardèche, where he created his own estate in 2007. He bought some vines from Gérald Oustric, one of the most emblematic natural winemakers of the Ardèche. The estate is made up...
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