2021 La Roche Buissiere 'Premices' VDF, 750ml

Located northeast of Vaison-La-Romaine in the southern Côtes du Rhône, Antoine and Laurence Joly work 18 hectares of organic vineyards making some of our favorite wines in the region. They maintain a freshness and lightness in their wines by dedicating themselves to very intense vineyard work that allows them to harvest earlier than several other producers in their area, resulting in less concentrated and lower alcohol wines.

Antoine’s family has run the estate since the early 1970’s. Antoine's father was a pioneer of organic viticulture in the Rhone and the vineyards have been certified since the 1980s, although he sold most of the grapes to the local co-op when he started. Antoine and Laurence took over in 1999 and, since 2003, have vinified 100% of the harvest themselves. -

The grapes are harvested by hand and destemmed, followed by 15 day spontaneous fermentation in concrete tanks with indigenous yeasts and ages between 6 to 8 months in concrete tanks prior bottling.