Rhône Valley
Crozes Hermitage "Georges" - 2022 - David Reynaud - Magnum
Domaine Les Bruyères
A nose of opulent aromas and a touch of smoke, with blackberry jam, pepper, peony... Palate: a juice that slips down easily, sincere, with brilliant, creamy body, and a saline finish. A rock-solid yet modern Crozes!
- Size
- 150 cl
- Original features
- Biodynamic wine
- Appellation
- Crozes-Hermitage
- Degree of alcohol
- 13 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
100% Syrah, from 25-year-old vines, certified organic and Biodynamic, grown on the terroir known as Beaumont Monteux, with a well-drained soil of clay-limestone and detrital pebbles. Vinification: total destemming, placed in vats fror about three weeks of maceration with indigenous yeasts and punching down of cap. Juices are moved by gravity, soft pressing, fermented and matured for 1/3 in amphora, 1/3 in egg-shaped cement vats and 1/3 in old barrels. Racked, filtered and bottled during Spring 2023, with a pinch of sulphur.
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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