AETERNO
ORIGIN OF STAINED GLASS WINDOW :
St Vitus Cathedral – Prague
St Vitus Cathedral – Prague
COMMENTARY :
Intense, black ink colour, purplished reflections. Nose impresses fume notes and ripe black fruits, notes of blueberry, violet, white pepper of Malabar. Relatively flexible attack which quickly gives way to a wine all in power; broad mouth, opulent and massive counterbalanced by extremely fine and delicate tannins. The spinal column of this wine is a beautiful north-Rhone-native acidity which brings a great freshness to it. Abyssal length… Use of a decanter recommended in its youth.
« Structure, elegance, smoothness and purity ….. Large Syrah without fuss nor bullshit made in Crozes-Hermitage; this wine is the result of the improbable meeting of a rugby player and a ballerina; to have some fun: make a blind tasting with it and enjoy…” Fred
FOOD & WINE PAIRING :
- Roquefort sauce & fried rib steak, hand cut fries.
- Roasted Lamb shoulder, apricots & dried fruits.
- Duck breasts honey and balsamic, steamed rice.
- Pan Fried Pork Chops, Parmesan rice grits & black truffles.
- Duck Confit, Lentil ragout & fingerling potatoes
- Quails stuffed with the foie gras, crispy mushrooms.
- Crusted Sweetbreads, spinach & Sage, Toasted Walnuts.
- Saint-Félicien, Saint-Marcellin, Salers.
TASTING :
Ideal temperature service : 16/17°C.
Drink from the bottling up to 5/7 years.
INFORMATION :
VITICULTURE :
40hl/ha.
Soil ploughing and scraping, canopy management.
VINIFICATION & MATURATION :
Organic & biodynamic farming.
Biodyvin certified.
100 % hand-picked harvest
Harvest reception by gravity.
Short maceration in concrete tank for 15 days.
Pneumatic pressing.
Fermentation : 100 % native yeasts.
Aged in amphoras during 12 months.
No fining, no filtration.
Biodyvin certified.
100 % hand-picked harvest
Harvest reception by gravity.
Short maceration in concrete tank for 15 days.
Pneumatic pressing.
Fermentation : 100 % native yeasts.
Aged in amphoras during 12 months.
No fining, no filtration.
PROVENANCE OF THE GRAPES :
Domaine des bruyères
Crozes-Hermitage