100% Syrah. From Texier's younger, i.e. 35-40-year-old vines, in the limestone-rich, cooler Brézème vineyard area on the eastern side of the Rhône at the southernmost edge of the northern Rhône Valley. They lie on a steep, south-facing hill, are organically farmed and harvested by hand. Whole...

50% Bourbolenc/50%Clairette. Eric has worked closely for many years with Jean Riché, the owner/farmer of these vines which lie 1 km. from the Rhône River.  The Bourbelenc and Clairette are bush-trained so that the leaves help shade the fruit from the hot sun. The site is flat and stony with cool,...

100% Syrah. Whole-cluster fermentation; aged 20 months in 7-10 year-old barriques. Very low SO2 added.In years past, Éric had been buying fruit from someone who sold to Jaboulet; now all the fruit is from the Corps de Loup lieu-dit. The soil is a mixture of schist and gneiss; the vines are 80 years...

Eric’s oldest-vine Roussanne on pure limestone. 50% on skins for 6-8 weeks in amphora and 50% direct-press in 20-yr-old old barrels; blended then and pressed together and aged in a mix of amphora & old barrels.

100% Marsanne. From 80-year-old vines in St. Julien. Eric changed it up for the Marsanne this vintage: instead of 8 months on the skins in clay tinaja or amphora like in 2015, the 2016 saw “only” 4 months of skin contact, followed by 2 years on the lees in old barrel. Bottled without sulfur in...