Les Pierrelles
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 5-15 years from the vintage release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Roasted duck, grilled lamb chops, wild mushroom risotto
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the dizzyingly steep, terraced slopes of Cote-Rotie in the northern Rhone Valley, Les Pierrelles by Paul Jaboulet Aine is a masterful expression of Syrah grown on stony, schist-rich soils. The name itself, derived from the French word for stones, pays homage to the fractured rock and granite-laced terroir that forces the vines to dig deep for nutrients. Under the stewardship of winemaker Caroline Frey, this cuvee benefits from organic and biodynamic farming practices. The grapes are hand-harvested from precipitous cliffs where mechanization is impossible, and aged in French oak barrels. This meticulous process coaxes out Cote-Rotie's signature aromatic complexity, blending dark bramble fruit with cracked black pepper, violet, and a subtle smoky minerality.
🍾 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
13.5-14%