Les Jalets Rouge
⏳ Drinking Window
2020 - 2027
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled lamb chops, roasted duck, or a rustic charcuterie board.
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the stony terraces of the Crozes-Hermitage appellation in the northern Rhône Valley, 'Les Jalets' takes its name from the ancient French word for the smooth, rounded river pebbles ('jalets') deposited by retreating glaciers millennia ago. These iconic stones act as natural heat regulators, absorbing the warm French sun by day and gently radiating it back to the Syrah vines during the cool nights. Crafted by the historic house of Paul Jaboulet Aîné, this wine is a vibrant, terroir-driven expression of Northern Rhône Syrah. It undergoes traditional vinification followed by aging in a combination of stainless steel and neutral French oak barrels to preserve its bright, crunchy red fruit character, cracked black pepper spice, and elegant floral undertones.
🍾 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
13-13.5%