Domaine des Bosquets "La Jerôme" Côtes du Rhône Villages 2021

Produced largely from vineyards in Séguret, Brechet's Cotes du Rhone Villages is a co-fermentation of approximately two-thirds Grenache and one-third Syrah. The Syrah is picked first and held as a chilled must, with the Grenache picked and added to the tank five to six days later. There's a lovely herbal overlay draped over the wine's other notes of black cherries, plums, liquorice and orange zest. Aged in a three-year-old foudre and some concrete, there's no real oak impact, just a lively interplay between the fruit and spicy-herbal elements in this medium to full-bodied yet silky-textured offering. It's another stellar buy!"

----ABOUT THE PRODUCER----

Les Bosquets is six centuries of winegrowing history. The first notarial deeds bearing the mention "vinea culta" were established at Lieu dit Les Bosquets, in 1376... still old...

In this Rhone bastion of blending, we very quickly began to work in Burgundy, which may seem paradoxical. The plot has become our vision, the expression of the terroir our religion. Making a non-reproducible, unique wine interests me...

But in the beginning, the idea was not to do differently from others, but simply to do our best. And doing our best has led us to do things differently. The cornerstone of Les Bosquets is diversity. So we started to dissect everything to understand...

We therefore overhauled the vinification process, with the introduction of parcel vinification, the renovation of the underground cellar for the aging, and finally, in 2016, the culmination of this thought with the creation of a micro-vinification workshop. in addition to the original cellar. 10 years later, we have gone from 1 wine to 7… We explore.

I remain convinced that on an appellation like Gigondas, we can make 1000 different wines. Diversity is everywhere. Altitude, orientation, soils, basements, exposure to the wind, to the sun, to the influence of the woods, in short… Everything requires approaching things in detail.

So we will continue to explore. And who knows, maybe one day, as a great winemaker from the cool, sandy terroirs of Châteauneuf-du-pape predicted to me, when I have sufficiently mastered all my terroirs, I will move on to the composition stage. , and will only make one wine, which will crown these years of learning...

To be continued…