Pierre Chermette Vissoux Les Griottes Beaujolais 2022 2018 of good intensity

of good intensity

All the fruit for Olivier Klein's excellent value Un Air Côtes du Rhône was drawn from the estate’s highland

perfumed appeal of the Rhône high country

A beautiful wine

Pierre Chermette Vissoux Les Griottes Beaujolais 2022 2018 of good intensityLes 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