Domaine de Saint Pierre
⏳ Drinking Window
2015 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted leg of lamb, wild venison, rich beef stew
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the rugged, sun-drenched granite terraces of the Cornas appellation in the northern Rhone Valley, the Domaine de Saint Pierre is a historic estate acquired by Paul Jaboulet Aine in 1996. Named after the ancient chapel of Saint-Pierre that crowns the steep, south-facing amphitheater of vines, this wine represents the pinnacle of traditional, powerful Syrah. The vineyard's decomposed granite soils, known locally as gore, impart a distinct mineral tension and structural intensity to the grapes. Under the stewardship of winemaker Caroline Frey, the vineyard is farmed biodynamically, ensuring the purest expression of this unique terroir. The wine is aged in French oak barrels, resulting in a classic Cornas that balances dark, brooding fruit with savory complexity, wild herbs, and firm, age-worthy tannins.
🍾 About the Producer
Established in 1834 by Antoine Jaboulet on the sun-drenched granite slopes of Tain-l'Hermitage, Maison Paul Jaboulet Aîné stands as one of the Rhône Valley's most storied viticultural estates. Acquired in 2006 by the Frey family, the domain experienced a profound renaissance under the stewardship of master oenologist and viticulturist Caroline Frey, who converted its extensive Northern Rhône holdings to certified organic viticulture alongside rigorous biodynamic regimens. While globally renowned for its legendary Hermitage reds like La Chapelle, the estate crafts equally sublime white wines from premier terroirs spanning Hermitage, Crozes-Hermitage, Condrieu, and the Southern Rhône. Here, Marsanne, Roussanne, Viognier, and Grenache Blanc are harvested at meticulous phenolic maturity from complex alluvial pebbles, loess, and fractured granitic soils. Vinified with gentle gravity flow, temperature-regulated fermentation, and judicious French oak contact on fine lees, Jaboulet whites—exemplified by Chevalier de Stérimberg, Domaine de Thalabert Mule Blanche, and Les Jalets Blanc—deliver exceptional minerality, textural waxiness, and refined age-worthy precision.
🍇 Grapes
Syrah 100%
🍷 ABV
13.5-14%