RHONE, FRANCE
Tasting Notes: A single-vineyard wine, “Les Colonnades” is from old Grenache and Mourvèdre vines in pebbly red-clay and limestone. The grapes are purposefully picked
late so that the Grenache teeters on the brink of over-maturity, but it remains adamantly on the fresh side of the divide, and this tardy harvest imbues it with a wealth of autumnal character and spicy, tobacco-y depth. The articulation of iron-inflected minerality here is truly profound, and it blossoms as the wine ages. “Les Colonnades” spends four years in concrete vat with no added sulfur at all after a 45-day maceration.
