Les Jumelles
⏳ Drinking Window
2015 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled lamb chops, wild mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Named 'Les Jumelles' (The Twins) in homage to the legendary twin hills of Côte-Rôtie—the Côte Blonde and the Côte Brune—this classic cuvée from Paul Jaboulet Aîné beautifully bridges the two distinct personalities of the appellation. According to local lore, a medieval lord gifted these sloping hillside vineyards to his two daughters, one blonde and one brunette, explaining the names of the distinct terroirs. The Côte Blonde, with its lighter gneiss and granite soils, imparts elegance, silkiness, and floral aromatics, while the Côte Brune, rich in iron and mica-schist, provides structure, power, and deep savory complexity. Jaboulet meticulously crafts this wine from steep, hand-harvested terraced vineyards, aging it in French oak barrels to harmonize the intense dark fruit, black pepper, and smoky notes characteristic of classic 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
Syrah
🍷 ABV
13-14%