Les Traverses Rouge
⏳ Drinking Window
2023 - 2026
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled lamb chops, charcuterie boards, Mediterranean roasted vegetables
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the rugged slopes of Mount Ventoux, often called the 'Giant of Provence,' Les Traverses Rouge captures the wild, sun-drenched spirit of the Southern Rhône. The wine takes its name from the 'traverses,' the historic dry-stone walls built to support the steep, terraced vineyards that cling to the mountainside. Here, the vines benefit from intense Mediterranean sunshine balanced by the cooling, high-altitude alpine breezes and the fierce Mistral wind. Crafted primarily from Grenache and Syrah, Paul Jaboulet Aîné vinifies this cuvée predominantly in stainless steel and concrete vats to preserve its vibrant, primary fruit character. The result is a classic, approachable bistro-style red that sings of ripe red berries, wild lavender, and the savory, herbal scrubland known as garrigue.
🍾 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
Grenache, Syrah
🍷 ABV
13.5-14%