Jean-Baptiste Souillard Crozes-Hermitage Les Baties 2021

Les Bâties is a cool, southeast-facing lieu-dit at Larnage, on the northern side of the Hermitage hill, worked here by Jean-Baptiste Souillard.

Crozes-Hermitage is the largest appellation of the northern Rhône, and most of its volume comes from the flat Chassis plain planted after the 1970s. Larnage, by contrast, was the historic centre of the appellation, a valley of stony red clay, loess and fractured, oxidised granite that gives finer, cooler-fruited Syrah. Altitude of around 200 metres and that granite are the key factors, along with the age and pruning of the vines, which are goblet-trained and were planted in the 1950s and 1960s. Souillard is part of the younger generation working the northern Rhône with a light touch. The cuvée was fermented with mostly whole clusters and raised for 14 months in mature casks, giving a compact, fresh and precise Crozes.

Drink now to ten years. It suits roast lamb, peppered steak or grilled mushrooms, served at 16 to 18°C.

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