Herve Souhaut - Clos des Cessieux 2021
Domaine Romaneaux Destezet is located in Ardèche , on the right bank of the Rhône opposite the Hermitage hill. It was created in 1993 by Hervé Souhaut and has grown over the years through the planting of new vines and the successive purchases of various plots often planted with old vines (50 to 100 years old). The current area of the estate is 5 hectares and Hervé Souhaut also has an additional business of purchasing grapes. The grape varieties used are of local origin and representative of the North of the Rhone Valley. Sensitized from the start of his activity by the need to produce wines that were as natural as possible in order to best express the potential of the terroir, Hervé Souhaut turned to the production of grapes from agriculture that respects the environment. environment. But convinced that we should not stop at this stage, he decided, under the impetus of winegrowers adept at natural vinification and helped by his training as a biologist, to produce wines without oenological additives .
Les Cessieux is a plot belonging to the Souhaut family which had been leased to another producer until 2013. The age of the Syrah vines is over 30 years old. Fermentation takes place at low temperature in wooden vats and aging lasts 8 months on the lees in barrels of several wines . Bottling is carried out without filtration with less than 25 mg/L of sulphur.
Grape variety: 100% Syrah