Rhône Valley
Crozes Hermitage "Aux Bêtises"- 2023 - David Reynaud
Domaine Les Bruyères
An opulent wine, very ripe, with notes of apricot, peach, and brioche... On the palate: lovely richness and body, this is superb. A wine unlike any other from this appellation.
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Appellation
- Crozes-Hermitage
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
75% Marsanne and 25% Roussanne, certified organic and biodynamic, from the terroir of Beaumont-Monteux, with vines planted on well-drained clay-limestone soils. Hand-harvested at full ripeness, with grape sorting done in the vineyard. Vinification: full destemming, gentle direct pressing in a pneumatic press, the juices are moved by gravity, fermentation and aging for 9 months, with two-thirds in 16 hl egg-shaped concrete vats and one-third in used barrels. After filtration and a light dose of sulfur, bottled at the estate on the 30th of May 2024.
David Reynaud
David Reynaud, today in his forties, took over the family estate in 2000, and from the beginning, wanted to convert the vineyard to biodynamics. In 2002, he stopped delivering his grapes to the cooperative, which was uninterested in his desire to improve his work methods! Since then, his wines have never ceased to gain in precision and complexity. In 2005, the 20 ha estate was certified...
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