Domaine de Thalabert
⏳ Drinking Window
2024 - 2030
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted lamb, grilled ribeye steak, wild game stews
✨ Technical Specifications
Domaine de Thalabert holds the proud distinction of being the oldest vineyard in the Crozes-Hermitage appellation, cherished by the Jaboulet family since 1834. Located on a stony plain of the Rhône, the vineyard is covered in smooth, round pebbles (galets roulés) that capture the sun's heat by day and warm the vines by night. This distinctive terroir coaxes a profound depth from the Syrah grape, yielding a wine celebrated for its structure, dark fruit intensity, and savory complexity. Aged in French oak, it beautifully balances notes of blackberry, licorice, wild herbs, and smoked meats, standing as a benchmark for Northern Rhône Syrah.
🍾 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
100% Syrah
🍷 ABV
13.5-14%