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With Syrah to the fore, this is full of berry fruit, violet, liquorice, and spices. It has a generous, rounded palate and a long, elegant finish. The fruit for Saint Esprit comes from a small valley in the northern Ardeche, to the west of the river Rhone. The vineyards are south facing granite, and hence particularly well suited to Syrah, as well as naturally low yielding. The grapes were destemmed and then fermented for fifteen days in closed vats, with daily pumping over temperature was limited to 28 30176C. Malolactic took place in stainless steel, and then thirty percent of the wine was racked to oak barrels while the rest remained in tank.
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