*New* 48 Crozes-Hermitage Rouge AC 2009
Champ Morel

Grape:100% Syrah (12.5% alc.)

This excellent wine comes from 30 year old vines planted both in alluvial soil in Beaumont-Monteux and clay-limestone hillsides in Chanos-Curson. Mid-red, it offers a gorgeous nose of mulberries and black cherries enhanced by a well judged elevage in a mix of old foudres, five year old barrels and cuve. For drinking now to 2014.

Technical Information
Winemaker:	Martine Vandre
Location:	Quatier de la Beaume, Chanos Curson
Size of domaine:	26 hectares of which 15 hectares for this wine.
Grape:	100% Syrah trained to Cordon –Royat with an average age of 25 years and a plant density of 5-6,000 vines per hectare.
Terroir:	Argilo calcaire and stoney, Alpine diluvium. Altitude of 130 metres
Viticulture:	De-buds and green harvests. Prevents oidium with sulphur. ‘Bio’ treatment for pests. Organic fertiliser only. Both ploughs and grows grass in places. Manual harvest. Yield of 40 hectos per hectare.
Vinification:	Destalks 100% and part crushes. Cement tanks. Indigenous yeasts. Temperature between 25C and 30C. Remontage once or twice a day for 10-15 days. Pneumatic press and the press wine is added back after the malo. No heating of the cellars for the malo. Elévage lasts a year using 10% cuve and 45% foudres – 20yrs, 45% fûts between 3 and 10yrs old. Racked once or twice. Fined by bentonite and lightly filtered by plaque, then bottled using their own bottling line. 60,000 bottles produced.
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exc vat: £12.17