2024 Eric Texier Cotes du Rhone 'Adele' Blanc
100% Clairette. From certifed-organic, mainly-Clairette vines planted on a south-facing slope on the granite soils of the St-Julien en St-Alban zone in the Ardèche at the southern edge of the northern Rhône Valley). The bunches are harvested by hand, direct-pressed and fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts and no sulfur in open-top cement tanks. The wine is aged 6-8 months in cement and is bottled without fining or filtration and with a touch of sulfur. The name is a reference to" Adèle Blanc-Sec", a 1970s newspaper comic strip (and its heroine) set in Paris circa 1912.
About Eric Texier
Éric Texier became a winemaker after a prior career and without any background in vines or wines. As such, his methods developed not from years of schooling, but from his readings, his visiting winemakers around the world, and working in Burgundy with Jean-Marie Guffens at Verget. After giving up the idea of buying vineyards, which was too costly a proposition for a beginner with his ambitions, he started a small negoce where he selected interesting vineyard plots from hard-working farmers who grew the healthy grapes he wanted to buy and vinify.
He re-discovered nearly forgotten areas of ancient fame, like Breze`me in the northern Cotes-du-Rhone and the new St.-Julien en St.-Alban, a heretofore unknown plot of ancient Syrah vines on the west bank of the Rhone that had been tended by protestant monks and has never seen artificial fertilizers or pesticides. The wines are vinified in their areas of production, and when they have obtained their AOC, the young wines are transported to Charnay-en-Beaujolais, just north of Lyon, where Eric lives and has recently acquired a wonderful elevage cellar. Exact steps in vinification vary according to the varietals, terroirs and vintages, but the goal is always to provide the grapes, musts and wines with the best environment and intervene as little as possible.
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