Viognier "Mon grand-père était limonadier", Julien Pilon
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Viognier "Mon grand-père était limonadier", Julien Pilon - 2024

750 mL
Item # 42993

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
2024
Country
France
Region
Rhône
Producer
Pilon
Grape Variety
Viognier
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Staff Pick Notes

"My Grandfather Was A Lemonade Seller" is the name of this wine, paying tribute to winemaker Julien Pilon making his first vintage in his parents' garage - also where his grandfather had a lemonade business! Just as much care went into this 100% Viognier bottle as I'm sure went into the lemonade - the grapes were hand harvested from 4 parcels on plateaus overlooking the Northern Rhone Valley. The altitude and minimized sunlight, along with slow alcoholic fermentation at cooler temperature, preserve the fresh stone-fruit notes and beautiful floral aromatics. After some malolactic fermentation and 10 months on the lees, there is also a wonderful roundness to this wine and a nose of fresh baked pastry. An elegant winter white to pair with chicken Cesar pasta, Beyonce's 'Lemonade' album, and looking forward to spring!

- VP

More About This Wine

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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