Viognier "Mon grand-père était limonadier", Julien Pilon

Viognier "Mon grand-père était limonadier", Julien Pilon - 2023

Item # 42993 750mL

Julien Pilon's white wines are beyond impressive and have been markedly changed since the late 2010s as the oak regimen has been toned down to focus on the terroir and fruit profile of his wines - namely, the aromatic Viognier.
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Color
White
Vintage
2023
Country
France
Region
Rhône
Producer
Pilon
Grape Variety
Viognier
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Glossary

Rhône

Prestige in the north, value in the south: that’s the quick version of the Rhône story. Southern village appellations produce a dizzying stylistic range of delicious wines, while the prices for northern “trophy” bottles can be dizzyingly high. If you like smoky, leathery, earthy, macho red wines, however, the wines of the northern Rhône are well worth it. Prestigious northern Rhône appellations include Condrieu, Côte-Rôtie, Hermitage, and St.-Joseph. In the southern Rhône, look to the village...

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Viognier

Some of the most intriguing wines associated with the white Viognier grape contain hardly any Viognier at all: in the Côte Rôtie appellation, wine must be made principally from the red Syrah grape, but up to 20 percent (often far less) can be of white Viognier. The practice of adding Viognier to Syrah began as a way of taming the very ripe, tannic reds of the hot Côte Rôtie ("roasted slope"), but it produced such incredible results that other countries, most notably Australia, have followed...

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