Certified organic. 70% Grenache and 30% Syrah. All the fruit for Olivier Klein’s killer-value entry-level Côtes-du-Rhône grows on the Estate’s highland, sandy-limestone vineyards set around the wooded hamlet of Sabran. Olivier aims for a fruited vin de soif style with this wine—juicy, floating fruit and sweetly floral perfumes. It always hits the spot. After a five-day cold soak, the wine spent only a brief time on skins—less than a week. Olivier also incorporated 50% whole-bunches for more lift and a buoyant structure.
Aged in concrete and bottled within a year of harvest, it’s a vibrant and perfumed Grenache-led Côtes-du-Rhône oozing rocky red-berry and wild strawberry fruit with green-herb vivacity and a crisp, refreshing close. A lighter, more supple tread from a cooler year and more aromatic too: it is already singing praises to the perfume and charm of high-country Grenache.