La Petite Chapelle Rouge
⏳ Drinking Window
2025 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted rosemary lamb, grilled venison, or rich wild mushroom risotto.
✨ Technical Specifications
La Petite Chapelle is the highly esteemed second wine of Paul Jaboulet Aîné's legendary Hermitage 'La Chapelle'. It shares its name and heritage with the iconic stone chapel of Saint-Christophe, which sits atop the Hermitage hill, originally built by the 13th-century knight Gaspard de Stérimberg. Crafted from 100% Syrah, this cuvée is sourced from the same historic, sun-drenched granite terraces of the Hermitage appellation, but utilizes parcels and younger vines that yield a more supple, approachable character in their youth. The wine is vinified with meticulous care and aged in French oak barrels, resulting in a classic Northern Rhône expression that balances rich dark fruit, black pepper, and savory olive tapenade notes with elegant, velvety 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%