Rasteau, Elodie Balme
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Organic

Rasteau, Elodie Balme - 2021

Item # 34801 750mL

From the the premier village of Rasteau in the southern part of the Cotes-du-Rhône, this wine is packed with dark chappy fruit balanced with acidity and tannin. A very food friendly wine. Elodie Balme is young female winemaker who studied under Marcel Richaud, one of the pioneers of biodynamic viticulture. She founded Domaine Elodie Balme when she was 23 years old.
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Color
Red
Vintage
2021
Country
France
Region
Rhône
Appellation/Village
Rasteau
Producer
Elodie Balme
Grape Variety
Syrah
Carignan
Grenache
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Organic

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Practicing Organic

Wine made from grapes grown without synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides in the vineyard.

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Staff Pick Notes

Elodie Balme's winemaking career started under the tutelage of Marcel Richaud, one of the pioneers of biodynamics in the Southern Rhône.With her mentor Marcel's encouragement, she founded Domaine Elodie Balme at just 23 years old. Over time she has she modified her farming approach: replacing fertilizers with contact products, organic inputs, ploughing and discontinuing the use of chemical pesticides. In the winery her ethos carries over. Native yeast fermentation and no acidification. A small amount of sulphur is added at bottling and that's all. This low-SO2 usage makes for a fruit-forward wine with bright notes of raspberry, strawberry, and black cherry. An underlying stoney minerality gives the right amount of earth on the palate. Bright freshness and resolved tannins make this a stellar choice for lamb-based stews.

- MHG

Glossary

Grenache

The Grenache grape (a.k.a. Grenache Noir) produces relatively pale, fruity red wines that often stop just short of sweetness. Grenache is familiar to most wine drinkers as an ingredient in the blends of the Rhône and Languedoc-Roussillon, where it can add charm to varieties that are a little rougher around the edges. The distinguished Châteauneuf-du-Pape and Gigondas appellations are both characterized by significant percentages of Grenache, while in Tavel and Lirac the grape is used to make...

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Mourvèdre

Known as Mataro in California and Monastrell in Spain, Mourvèdre can produce bold, tannic, highly alcoholic red wines. They usually show no shortage of fruit as well, and the best examples keep it all in perfect balance. Rhône-style blends are cropping up all over the world, and one of the classic tried-and-true combinations is "GSM," or Grenache-Syrah-Mourvèdre. The "M" contributes focus and fleshy character to blends - but Mourvèdre also shines on its own as a varietal wine.

Carignan

Grown all over Europe and the Americas, Carignan (a.k.a. Carignane, Carignano, and Cariñena) is seldom seen as a 100% varietal wine. Many appellations of Languedoc-Roussillon must include a certain percentage of Carignan, but it is rarely the dominant grape in these blends. For years, this naturally high-yielding grape suffered from overproduction, but New World winemakers have lately taken up the Carignan cause and produced some distinctive and delicious examples. Now that it is subject to...

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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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Syrah

We'd like to clear this up once and for all: the Shiraz grape is genetically identical to Syrah. Australian winemakers put "Shiraz" on the map (and, many would argue, vice versa), and the term is now used throughout much of the New World. Let it never be said, however, that Shiraz and Syrah are the same thing: the region in which the grape is grown determines much about the flavor of the wine it will produce. Typically, New World Shiraz yields bigger, fruitier wines than the the peppery Syrahs...

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