2016 Eric Texier Domaine de Pergaud Cotes du Rhone Vieille Serine Rhone, France Kir-Yianni including very beautiful hillside terroirs

including very beautiful hillside terroirs — Hinterberg

but retains 30% of the harvest from his most mature vines for his two wines

this is a wine that can be enjoyed thoroughly in its youth but would reward medium-term aging

(To underline the labor-intensive quality of the way this wine is made: after the Riesling grapes are pressed whole-cluster

where the wine spends 18 months on the fine lees and is bottled without fining or filtration

2016 Eric Texier Domaine de Pergaud Cotes du Rhone Vieille Serine Rhone, France Kir-Yianni including very beautiful hillside terroirsDomaine de Pergaud is the designation for Eric's best expressions of terroir, usually in the form of micro productions from very old vines. Here Eric dubs his wine Vieille Serine after the ancient strain of Syrah. Some even speculate Serine isn't Syrah at all but it's own genetic entity. Prior to Eric taking over these vines, they'd been farmed exclusively by a Protestant religious group known as the Darbistes. The result: chemicals have never been