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Pedres Blanques Rouge 2021
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Pedres Blanques

Pedres Blanques Rouge 2021

Regular price $200.00
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Rousillon // France

This is the 5th vintage of Japanese winemaker couple Rie & Hirofumi Shoji. 

The couple currently makes only one wine for sale – Grenache, vinified and aged in Banyuls in a facility they share with 9 other winemakers. The wine is fermented with whole-clusters and indigenous yeast without temperature control. Élevage lasts for 6 months and the wines are bottled unfiltered and unfined with minimal sulphur at bottling.

A beautiful wine from what was an incredibly challenging year. This is mostly Grenache from vines of 30-50 years of age planted over granite and schist between 250-300 metres above sea level. The grapes were fermented as whole bunches in cuve for around a month, before being pressed and fed by gravity into old barrels of various sizes. A year of élevage has rendered an absolute masterpiece. With delicate notes of black fruit, minerals and iodine and a palate that is just pure silk, this is arguably their best work yet.
About the Producer

Pedres Blanques is founded by Rié and Hirofumi Shoji who are both from Japan but met at wine school in Beaune. Rié worked for Jacques-Frédéric Mugnier at the time, and Hiro has worked for Frédéric Cossard for many years. When the time came to set up a house for themselves, Roussillon became the obvious choice as the home for Pedres Blanques. Partly because it is still possible to buy vineyards that are affordable, partly because the coastal climate with very strong winds from the Mediterranean decreases the risk of frost and diseases in the vineyards.

They purchased 3.5 hectares of extremely steep and impassable vineyards at an altitude of 350 meters, located on the outer edge of the Collioure appellation. The vineyards are largely planted with Grenache Noir on a soil of granite and slate that give the grapes a tremendous freshness and acidity.

In the cellar, all the virtues from their time in Burgundy are in use: 100% whole clusters, spontaneous fermentation, long but very gentle extraction, storage in old casks, no use of pumps, no fining or filtration and absolutely no added sulphur. Pedres Blanques make serious and structured wines with huge potential for storage, but at the same time with an enormous lightness and elegance as a result of extremely insightful vineyard work and a very gentle vinification.

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