The Chapoutier family motto ‘Fac et Spera’ (do and hope) is an abiding principle that influences everything at their leading Rhone estate, Maison M. Chapoutier. Here they nurture their vineyards with the greatest respect for natural balance and terroir. They have been employing little intervention since they started growing vines here in 1808 and the result is wines with a faithful expression of place, purity of fruit and ethereal sensation. The art of ‘Fac et Spera’ requires patience and daring of course. Patience to allow nature to dictate and preside, daring by the winemaker to observe and be...
Imagining the sweetness and purity of diverse berry fruits found in the corresponding “L’Esquerda” bottling allied to the saline savor of the corresponding “Vignes de Bila-Haut” will give you an idea of what awaits from the glass of 2011 Cotes du Roussillon Villages Latour de France Occultum Lapidem …there is, unsurprisingly, at least as much sheer complexity on display here...
moreBottle 75cl £31.60
Bottle 75cl £31.60
Bottle 75cl £40.60
This cuvée¿s primary source is a very steep, terraced vineyard in the Côte Brune above Ampuis. The soil here is notably more limestone schistous, whereas the old-vine source in the Côte Blonde, more acidic and sandy, provides wine of less dense colour. Pure Syrah (Michel adds no Viognier) grown at minuscule yields from 70 year old vines gives this wine power...
moreBottle 75cl £77.60
Bottle 75cl £65.60
Bottle 75cl £42.60
Imagining the sweetness and purity of diverse berry fruits found in the corresponding “L’Esquerda” bottling allied to the saline savor of the corresponding “Vignes de Bila-Haut” will give you an idea of what awaits from the glass of 2011 Cotes du Roussillon Villages Latour de France Occultum Lapidem …there is, unsurprisingly, at least as much sheer complexity on display here...
moreMagnum 150cl £65.20
It took Michel six years of observing and analysing to gain an understanding of this very rich and complex terroir. Grenache grapes come from 70 year old vines, grown on a magnificent plot in the heart of the garrigue scrubland. The Syrah grapes are ripened slowly on vines grown on clayey limestone soil and are also grown on the Maison?s...
moreBottle 75cl £34.60
Magnum 150cl £65.20
Bottle 75cl
Case of 6 £189.60
Imagining the sweetness and purity of diverse berry fruits found in the corresponding “L’Esquerda” bottling allied to the saline savor of the corresponding “Vignes de Bila-Haut” will give you an idea of what awaits from the glass of 2011 Cotes du Roussillon Villages Latour de France Occultum Lapidem …there is, unsurprisingly, at least as much sheer complexity on display here...
moreMagnum 150cl £65.20
Case 6 x 75cl £189.60
Magnum 150cl
Single bottle£65.20
Imagining the sweetness and purity of diverse berry fruits found in the corresponding “L’Esquerda” bottling allied to the saline savor of the corresponding “Vignes de Bila-Haut” will give you an idea of what awaits from the glass of 2011 Cotes du Roussillon Villages Latour de France Occultum Lapidem …there is, unsurprisingly, at least as much sheer complexity on display here...
moreBottle 75cl £31.60
Bottle 75cl £31.60
Case of 6 £189.60
Bottle 75cl £31.60
Bottle 75cl £34.60
It took Michel six years of observing and analysing to gain an understanding of this very rich and complex terroir. Grenache grapes come from 70 year old vines, grown on a magnificent plot in the heart of the garrigue scrubland. The Syrah grapes are ripened slowly on vines grown on clayey limestone soil and are also grown on the Maison?s...
moreBottle 75cl £34.60
Bottle 75cl £40.60
Case of 6 £243.60
Bottle 75cl £40.60
Bottle 75cl £42.60
Bottle 75cl £42.60
Case 6 x 75cl £465.60
This cuvée¿s primary source is a very steep, terraced vineyard in the Côte Brune above Ampuis. The soil here is notably more limestone schistous, whereas the old-vine source in the Côte Blonde, more acidic and sandy, provides wine of less dense colour. Pure Syrah (Michel adds no Viognier) grown at minuscule yields from 70 year old vines gives this wine power...
moreBottle 75cl £77.60
Case 6 x 75cl
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