Les Cassines
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared scallops, mildly spiced Asian curry, goat cheese
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the steep, terraced granite slopes of the Condrieu appellation in the northern Rhone Valley, Les Cassines is a classic expression of the exotic Viognier grape. The name Les Cassines pays homage to the historic stone huts scattered across these vertigo-inducing vineyards, which historically offered shelter to the hardy vignerons working the steep slopes. Crafted by Paul Jaboulet Aine, this wine undergoes careful temperature-controlled fermentation and aging in a combination of stainless steel and oak barrels. This meticulous process preserves the grape's intense, signature aromatics of white peach, apricot, and violet while imparting a rich, voluptuous texture balanced by a subtle mineral backbone.
🍾 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
Viognier
🍷 ABV
13.5-14%