Combes
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lamb with rosemary, grilled ribeye steak, wild game stew
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the rugged, sun-drenched terraces of the Northern Rhône, Mark Haisma's 'Combes' (sourced from the celebrated 'Les Combes' lieu-dit in Cornas) represents a brilliant marriage of Burgundian finesse and Rhône power. Drawing on his deep-rooted love for Syrah, Haisma coaxes an incredibly expressive and energetic profile from the steep, decomposed granite soils of this historic appellation. The vineyard's unique microclimate and granite-rich terroir impart a distinct mineral tension and savory complexity to the wine. Crafted with low-intervention techniques, native yeast fermentation, and careful aging in seasoned French oak, this cuvée captures the wild, untamed spirit of Cornas—replete with notes of dark bramble fruit, cracked black pepper, and smoky tapenade—while maintaining a remarkably polished and pure texture.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in 2007 by Australian winemaker Mark Haisma, formerly head winemaker alongside Dr. Bailey Carrodus at Yarra Yering, this micro-négociant and domaine operation is anchored in Gevrey-Chambertin. Transitioning from an artisan négociant sourcing fruit across the Côte de Nuits and Côte de Beaune to an estate vigneron with parcels in Gevrey and the northern Mâconnais, Haisma pursues an organic viticultural philosophy with minimal cellar intervention. His winemaking focuses on gentle extraction, judicious use of whole clusters, ambient yeast fermentations, and neutral oak to highlight transparent site expression rather than cellar imprint. Alongside benchmark village and premier cru Burgundies such as Gevrey-Chambertin and Volnay, Haisma crafts northern Rhône Syrah and cheeky, iconoclastic bottlings such as 'A Bogan in Bogandy' and his Mâconnais-grown Shiraz, delivering wines defined by mineral tension, savory freshness, and precise fruit purity.
🍇 Grapes
Syrah
🍷 ABV
13-14%