R&M Crozes Hermitage 2021

Each grape brings its own unique qualities to this blend, with Marsanne providing body and delicate flavours of pear and spice, while Roussanne bringing elegance, aroma, dancing acidity and equally delicate crab apple and lemon-flower flavours, along with mineral notes.

Excellent with seafood platter, vegetables salad, pan-fried salmon, and goat’s cheeses. Also, to be enjoyed on any occasion as an aperitif.

Best served at 10 - 13°C.

Julien Dreveton learnt the trade in Sur La Roche, and applied it in Chateauneuf-du-Pape, before reconverting his family's ancestral land to vines. Julien is a one man band, single-handedly pruning in spring to machine harvesting in Autumn, to winemaking, bottling and selling. In his own words, "My two great-grandfathers cultivated the vines in the early 1900s... Both were called "Louis". Today, it is by thinking of them of course that I cultivate my small plots of vines. By taking care of their land, as my grandfather and father did, by working it in a reasoned way, to pass it serenely on to future generations... All this family love, built around the land and vineyards, you will hopefully find it in my first cuvées of Crozes-Hermitage...".

The seventh generation on this land, Julien named the vineyard after his two great-grandfathers, both called Louis, who cultivated the vines in the early 1900s. In 2016 Julien assumed his grandfather’s five and a half acre plot of apricot trees. The twenty-three year old quickly got to work cultivating his small plots of vines. His ethos of “taking care of their land, as my grandfather and father did, by working it in a reasoned way, to pass it serenely on to future generations...” is reflected in the quality of his first cuvées and that quality has already created a financially stable business (very impressive considering vines take five years before producing their first vintage!).s

• Organic - Independently Certified

White | Still | 75cl | 12.5% ABV