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Hermitage "Pierrelle," Barruol - 2016

Name: Hermitage "Pierrelle," Barruol
Brand: Not Applicable
SKU: 39504
Price: 84.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Item # 39504 750 mL

Louis Barruol is a force in the Rhône. He is the fourteenth generation in his family to be making wine in his sixteenth-century domaine in Gigondas. The Pierrelle vineyard name stems from the stony nature of the soil that is based on granite. The vines for this Syrah range from 30 to 50 years in age.

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Color

Red

Vintage

2016

Country

France

Region

Rhône

Sub-Region

Hermitage

Producer

Not Applicable

Grape Variety

Syrah

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Staff Pick Notes

Few have had a more seismic impact on American wine drinkers than Kermit Lynch. After more than 40 years of importing exquisite, terroir-driven wines from small family producers, his name on a bottle has become synonymous with exceptional quality. It's as close to a guarantee of a good wine as you can get. In the southern Rhône Louis Barruol is one of his star producers and they often collaborate on wines. This syrah comes from a vineyard at the top of the famed Hermitage hill, and this high altitude lends the wine a certain restraint. It's traditional in style, with incredible elegance, a beguiling swirl of gorgeous black cherry, tobacco, and earthy notes. This is Old World charm at its absolute best.

- ALM

Glossary

Rhône

Prestige in the north, value in the south: that’s the quick version of the Rhône story. Southern village appellations produce a dizzying stylistic range of delicious wines, while the prices for northern “trophy” bottles can be dizzyingly high. If you like smoky, leathery, earthy, macho red wines, however, the wines of the northern Rhône are well worth it. Prestigious northern Rhône appellations include Condrieu, Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage, and St.-Joseph. In the southern Rhône, look to the village...

Syrah

We'd like to clear this up once and for all: the Shiraz grape is genetically identical to Syrah. Australian winemakers put "Shiraz" on the map (and, many would argue, vice versa), and the term is now used throughout much of the New World. Let it never be said, however, that Shiraz and Syrah are the same thing: the region in which the grape is grown determines much about the flavor of the wine it will produce. Typically, New World Shiraz yields bigger, fruitier wines than the the peppery Syrahs...