Laurent Fayolle Hauterives Crozes-Hermitage 2024

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Laurent Fayolle is the sixth generation to run a small family estate in the northern Rhone village of Gervans, taking control of 7 hectares of prime heirloom parcels in 2002 when his father and uncle divided the family domaine; his first act was to convert everything to organic farming, and the estate is certified organic. Hauterives is 100% Syrah from vines over forty years old, 60% from Les Chassis on limestone and 40% from the original village of Crozes-Hermitage on granite. The fruit is de-stemmed, fermented with indigenous yeast, and both fermented and aged in concrete -- eleven months in tank -- then bottled unfined and unfiltered.