Dôle de Vétroz "Les Ruinettes," Serge Roh - 2021

The flavors are dark and subtle, drenched in shades of navy. Like lounging on a couch made of satin in a black cherry bathrobe with early afternoon sunshine flooding icy skin. Cranberry and smoldering embers absorbed in an endless conversation. 13 pennies, a touch of copper. Cold climate Pinot Noir intertwined with a small amount of Gamay. Flint and earth at the center of it all. A wine produced by the Roh family who migrated to Switzerland from Alsace in the late 80’s, collecting vineyards like rare treasures over countless years. Vines older then I am. The kind of juice that provokes imagination and thought. It makes you feel small, humbled by the rarity of its presence. Razor-like precision with a nose of dew-soaked sedimentary rocks, and smashed blue raspberrie