2016 Eric Texier Domaine de Pergaud Cotes du Rhone Vieille Serine Rhone, France Grgich accompanied by Gewurztraminer

accompanied by Gewurztraminer

With notes of fig

Grapes are hand-harvested and immediately pressed as whole bunches

along with a few rows of Marzemino and Sangiovese that supplied a small restaurant operated by his wife

2016 Eric Texier Domaine de Pergaud Cotes du Rhone Vieille Serine Rhone, France Grgich accompanied by GewurztraminerDomaine 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