Domaine Lionel Faury, Saint Joseph Rouge ‘Les Ribaudes’, 2022

Name: Domaine Lionel Faury, Saint Joseph Rouge ‘Les Ribaudes’, 2022
Brand: Thorman Hunt
Price: 162.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Northern Rhône, France

£162.00

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Northern Rhône ranges from fierce to elegant and include some of the world’s most famous Syrahs. We need to be looking for the rich concentration of flavours that can magically have high-pitched acidity AND brightness to the fruit. This is a great example of St Joseph showing great features of the appellation at a fraction of the price of the most famous names.

“Syrah is a very expressive grape,” says the wine maker Lionel Faury, who is wholly devoted to the grape variety’s terroir transparency and points out that, in Saint Joseph, this translates to an abundance of minerality in the glass. This rouge delivers on that promise and more, with its mesmerising flavors of dark fruit, black pepper, and smoked meat, plus its outstanding elegance.

"Opaque ruby. Intensely perfumed aromas of ripe red and dark berries, violet and smoky minerals, accompanied by a hint of olive that sneaks up with air. Sappy and focused on the palate, offering lively, spice-tinged black raspberry and bitter cherry flavours that turn sweeter through the midpalate. Finishes quite long, with lingering sweetness, very good clarity and gentle tannic grip." 92/100, Josh Raynolds, Vinous.

Grilled meats, roast lamb, game meats, stews, and a hearty ratatouille are the many great dishes you can pair with this wine.

Lionel Faury is making stunning wines and has moved his 17 hectares family domaine to the top of the first division of growers and super value in Northern Rhône. Domaine Lionel Faury is in the village of Chavanay, located just south of Condrieu and Côte-Rôtie. The estate’s history dates back to 1979, when Philippe Faury started bottling his wines. In 2006, Lionel took over from his father, and since then, he has been working to express the unique qualities of each of his vineyard plots while employing traditional Rhône winemaking techniques.

Brasserie Zédel

2022

France

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