Vincent Ruiz Yseult Mon Amour Syrah 2022

In 2020, Vincent vinified his first wines in Saint-Romain de Lerps, a small village in northern Ardèche. When Domaine du Gringet was founded in 2022 with Vincent at the helm, the decision was made to continue this adventure by creating a range of wines named “Les Vins de Vincent”.

For this range, the fruit is purchased from a friend based in southern Ardèche, who farms Syrah, Grenache Noir, Cinsault, Carignan and Grenache Blanc organically on a high altitude terroir located in Gras, a clay-limestone plateau between Vallon Pont d’Arc and the village of Saint-Montan. This late ripening terroir results in grapes harvested just a few days before those of Domaine du Gringet. The grapes are hand harvested and transported by refrigerated truck to Domaine du Gringet in Ayse for vinification.

All cuvées are worked with whole clusters and fermented with native yeasts. Macerations are conducted without punching down or pumping over, typically lasting between five and twenty-five days depending on the cuvée. The wines are aged in concrete, stainless steel and fibreglass vats. Thanks to the low pH provided by this terroir, the cuvées are precise and stable, often needing very low levels of sulfur, if any at all (in 2022 was less than 12mg of total sulfur per litre).

By purchasing grapes from the same plots each year, the goal is to anchor the identity of each vintage over time and refine the vinification process to best express the potential of the Gras terroir.

• Syrah