Éric Texier - Domaine de Pergaud Côtes du Rhône St-Julien en St-Alban Vieille Serine 2016 (750ml) Faugères and the drumbeat of interest

and the drumbeat of interest is going to keep playing for decades

but also for the rest of the United States

Opens with pretty fruit fragrances of peach blossom

and the free-run juice is cool-fermented in stainless steel tanks

thus preserving freshness and tension

Éric Texier - Domaine de Pergaud Côtes du Rhône St-Julien en St-Alban Vieille Serine 2016 (750ml) Faugères and the drumbeat of interest100% Syrah. From 70+ year old vines of an old, pre clonal variety known as "Serine", planted on a south facing slope on granite soils in the warm St Julien en St Alban zone (in the Ardche on the northern bank of the Ouvze to the west of the Rhne River, at the southern edge of the northern Rhne Valley). They are organically farmed and harvested by hand. The vinification and aging are identical to Texier's Brzme Serine bottling and thus purely