Pierre Chermette Vissoux Les Griottes Beaujolais 2022 2018 This is a fine example

This is a fine example of cool grown

A beautiful wine

stony texture

perfumed appeal of the Rhône high country

of good intensity

Pierre Chermette Vissoux Les Griottes Beaujolais 2022 2018 This is a fine exampleLes Griottes means 'the small cherries' in reference to the grove of cherry trees that flank the vineyard. Vissoux's entry cuve is drawn from 20 40 year old vines grown on dark, granite soils around the Chermette homestead in Saint Vrand (central Beaujolais). The winemaking here has remained unchanged during Pierre Marie Chermette's tenure, so traditional, whole bunch, semi carbonic ferment in concrete and maturation in tank and generations old oak