Version Sud Grenache
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2025
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled lamb chops, roasted Mediterranean vegetables, charcuterie board
✨ Technical Specifications
Frédéric Cossard's Version Sud series represents his creative exploration outside his native Burgundy. Sourcing organically grown Grenache from trusted grower partners in the south of France, Cossard applies his signature non-interventionist, zero-sulfur winemaking techniques to warmer-climate fruit. The grapes are carefully harvested by hand and transported back to his cellar in Saint-Romain under temperature-controlled conditions to preserve their pristine freshness. Fermented with indigenous yeasts and utilizing whole-cluster maceration, this cuvée showcases a remarkably vibrant, juicy, and energetic side of Grenache, trading heavy extraction for pure, crunchy red fruit, wild garrigue herbs, and a bright, mineral-driven finish. It is a testament to Cossard's ability to translate his Burgundian finesse to the sun-drenched varieties of the south.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1996 by former dairy technician and wine broker Frédéric Cossard, Domaine de Chassorney emerged from the high-altitude, limestone-rich enclave of Saint-Romain in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune. Expanding from his core estate vineyards into an adventurous micro-négoce under the Frédéric Cossard label, he works across Burgundy, the Jura, Beaujolais, and beyond. Cossard champions a holistic, self-devised 'homeopathic' viticultural method grounded in biodynamic preparations and rigorous soil health. In the cellar, his philosophy is strictly non-interventionist and uncompromisingly clean, relying on negative-ion oxygen sterilization instead of sulfur dioxide. White grapes undergo extended pressing and long spontaneous fermentations without temperature control, while red and macerated cuvées see gentle whole-cluster infusions in open wooden vats, concrete eggs, or qvevri. Known for benchmark skin-contact expressions like 'Feel Good' and 'Rafling' alongside pure expressions of Saint-Romain and Savagnin, Cossard's wines are renowned for their electrifying vitality, textural purity, and luminous clarity.
🍇 Grapes
Grenache