Crozes Hermitage Les Meysonniers Rouge M. Chapoutier 2023

Crozes-Hermitage Les Meysonniers, M Chapoutier, Northern Rhone, France, 2023

Grape: 100% organic Syrah from 25 year old vines, alluvial clay/gravel/pebble soils, partial hand harvesting, wild yeast fermentation in concrete vats, aged 12 months (90% in vats & 10% in oak barrels)

Producer Tasting Note:

“Les Meysonniers” is a wine with fleshy tannins, and loads of floral and black fruit notes, as well as elegance. Very intense purplish red colour. On the nose, red fruits, blackcurrant and raspberry, followed by violet aromas. Ample and rounded palate finishing with notes of stewed fruits and vanilla.

Critic's Tasting Note:

"A well-balanced, peppery and chalky wine with aromas of dark berries, meat and fresh black pepper. It’s medium-bodied with chalky tannins. Inky and delicious, with a flavorful, tactile finish. From organically grown grapes. Drink or hold."  James Suckling, April 2025

Chapoutier's Crozes-Hermitage is vinified traditionally with punching down and pumping over taking place in concrete tanks. This wine is made from organically grown grapes. The exclusion of all chemical products (in particular herbicides), and the ploughing of the vineyards, enables the vine to plunge its root system deep down into the heart of the soil. Deeper root systems make the vine’s physiological behavior more even, and provide better resistance to sudden and variable weather conditions. As to the wines, a more subtle balance and a pronounced minerality set this wine apart from other Crozes-Hermitage wines produced from this sedimentary soil. Vinification and ageing in concrete tanks enhances the subtlety of the balance.

Food Match: Drink with all meats and poultry, Cooked pork meats, Mature cheeses. Chapoutier's sommelier recommends pairing with an oven-baked veal rack with forestry sauce and Hasselback potatoes