Domaine Santa Duc Cotes du Rhone Les Quatre Terres 2024 (750ml)

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Producer	Domaine Santa Duc
Country	France
Region	Rhone
Subregion	Southern Rhone (Cotes-du-Rhone)
Varietal	Red Rhone Blend
Vintage	2024
Sku	00972
Size	750ml

   

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The wines from these parcels have lovely floral aromas, notes of red and black fruit and garrigue, with a pure, elegant tannic structure.

A blend of 70% Grenache, 15% Syrah,10% Mourvedre, the remaining 5% are Carignan and Cinsault.

The grapes are hand-picked into crates and sorted manually in the vineyard before a second, table sorting in the cellar.  A proportion is destemmed, the quantity being determined by the nature of the vintage and the parcel, and the grapes are fed by gravity into the vats to ensure the integrity of the berries.  Fermentation takes place in thermo-regulated stainless-steel vats for 20 to 30 days, with two long pumping over sessions daily. Punching down is decided after tasting. Pressed pneumatically. Malolactic fermentation in vat. The wines are clarified by settling over winter in the cellar. Barrel filling occurs in the spring. 

18 months in 36-hectoliter oak Stockinger foudres, and 8-hectoliter terracotta amphorae. Unfined and unfiltered at bottling.

This excellent Cotes-du-Rhone combines the richness of the grenache grape with wild berry and herb aromas and an excellent tension for the hot, dry vintage. Impressive depth and black fruit character in the long, zesty finish. From biodynamically grown grapes with Demeter certification. 75% whole-cluster fermented.