Tasting notes:
Domaine du Monteillet La Syrah a Papa. Classic, smokey peppery notes on the nose with serious structure and red fruit on the palate. Robust yet balanced, this is a stunning mouthful of youthful Syrah from the Rhône.
Food Match:
Barbecued steak, roast pork with fennel garlic, Lancashire hotpot, wild mushroom linguine.
Producer/Region:
Fruit is sourced from 3 parcels of young vine on the outskirts of St Joseph, vines on a sunny terrace of galets roulés on the left bank opposite the domain and other selected sites in the northern Rhône. Long fermentation with only indigenous yeasts, robotic pigeage to extract maximum colour and smooth tannins. Matured in french oak foudres with very low level of SO2.
Stéphane Montez’s family have been growing grapes in the Northern Rhône for ten generations and today have 23 hectares of prime vineyards in Condrieu, Côte Rôtie and Saint-Joseph. After formally studying winemaking in France, Stéphane travelled to South Africa, Australia, California and England to experience winemaking outside France before returning to the family estate. He took over the business in 1997, and has driven the quality of the wines and the domaine’s reputation to ever greater heights. His winemaking style focuses on power, precision and structure achieved through temperature-controlled fermentations, careful extraction and the use of demi-muids across the range.
For more information about the producer: https://www.montez.fr/monteillet-estate
