The 2016 vintage benefited from a temperate growing season with cool nocturnal shifts
employing gravity flow and cool stainless steel fermentation to preserve varietal purity
salvaged by timely September rains after a summer of extreme heat and drought
with a sort of effortless
A wonderful drop of medicine dripping with the sweet taste of clemency
2021 Bernard Levet, Cote-Rotie, Journaries Region_Douro The 2016 vintage benefited fromLevet has emerged as one of the greatest old school Cte Rtie producers. The wines have power and grizzly, savory complexity, but also restraint. You get the coolness and minerality of the appellation, the most northerly of the Northern Rhne. Les Journaries is from old vines from La Landonne. A little more powerful than the straight Cte Rtie, and good for mid term aging. Dark fruits, olives, earth.