Sacrilege
⏳ Drinking Window
Typically best enjoyed 3–10 years from release.
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Grilled rosemary lamb chops, duck breast with blackberry reduction, roasted wild boar with garrigue herbs.
✨ Technical Specifications
Crafted as a deliberate transgression of regional winemaking orthodoxy, this cuvée bridges the Northern and Southern Rhône by co-fermenting and blending old-vine Grenache from southern limestone and galets roulés soils with cool-climate Syrah sourced from northern granite slopes. Vinification employs native yeasts, gentle pump-overs, and deliberate whole-cluster components, followed by maturation in a combination of French oak barrels and concrete vats to preserve tension and mineral drive alongside dark fruit density.
🍾 About the Producer
Founded in the Rhône Valley in 1999 by preeminent consulting oenologist Xavier Vignon, Maison Xavier Vignon operates as an innovative négociant and estate producer that challenges traditional regional conventions. Combining over 30 hectares of proprietary vineyards—concentrated around Beaumes-de-Venise and parcels across Vacqueyras and Châteauneuf-du-Pape—with long-term grower partnerships, Vignon explores diverse Southern Rhône terroirs characterized by galets roulés, limestone marl, and elevated mountain terraces. Informed by formative cellar experiences in Champagne and across both hemispheres, Vignon's winemaking methodology emphasizes avant-garde assemblage, often blending disparate terroirs, micro-parcels, and multiple vintages in perpetual reserve style. Vinification incorporates gentle extraction, minimal additions, and proprietary aging innovations such as the oxygen-free 'Vinarium' submersion technique. Benchmark cuvées include the multi-vintage Châteauneuf-du-Pape Réserve, the parcel-driven Arcane series, and the flagship Anonyme, each celebrated for mineral vitality, architectural balance, and expressive southern fruit.
🍇 Grapes
Grenache, Syrah, Mourvèdre
🍷 ABV
14.5%