2016 Eric Texier Domaine de Pergaud Cotes du Rhone Vieille Serine Rhone, France Kir-Yianni where the wine spends 18

where the wine spends 18 months on the fine lees and is bottled without fining or filtration

2018 Clos des Mourres 665 Jours Blanc

but you can notice a strong underlying and common thread of a sense of place as you move through each wine

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2016 Eric Texier Domaine de Pergaud Cotes du Rhone Vieille Serine Rhone, France Kir-Yianni where the wine spends 18Domaine de Pergaud is the designation for Eric's best expressions of terroir, usually in the form of micro productions from very old vines. Here Eric dubs his wine Vieille Serine after the ancient strain of Syrah. Some even speculate Serine isn't Syrah at all but it's own genetic entity. Prior to Eric taking over these vines, they'd been farmed exclusively by a Protestant religious group known as the Darbistes. The result: chemicals have never been