Domaine La Décelle Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Valréas Reserve 2020
Red Blend from Rhône Valley, France
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750 ML
/ 14.00% ABV Click Here for Wine Details and Tech Notes
$40.00
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$14.99Domaine La Décelle Côtes-du-Rhône Villages Valréas Reserve 2020
Red Blend from Rhône Valley, France
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750.00 ML
/ 14.00% ABV Click Here for Wine Details and Tech Notes
Here's Why You Should Stock Up
- Locals in the Rhone Valley tell a legend of Pope John XXII traveling to Valreas while feeling ill, and attributing his recovery to its wine, he promptly purchased the village to safeguard the supply for his own use. The identification with the Avignon Papacy endured past the reforms of the Revolution; now completely surrounded by the Drome department, it is officially included in the Vaucluse department as an enclave, "L'Enclave des Papes."
- From a viticultural perspective, this geographical aberration follows a terroir logic, resembling the clay-chalk and sandy soils common in Chateauneuf-des-Papes, Gigondas, and Vacqueras. The Grenache and Syrah growing to the south of Valreas also convey the power and complexity found in the red wines of its famous neighbors.
- Because the 2020 La Decelle Reserve benefits from the association with the Lavau family of estates and their expertise, resources needed to produce a consistent, high-caliber house style flow in as the needs arise.
Here's Why You Should Stock Up
- Locals in the Rhone Valley tell a legend of Pope John XXII traveling to Valreas while feeling ill, and attributing his recovery to its wine, he promptly purchased the village to safeguard the supply for his own use. The identification with the Avignon Papacy endured past the reforms of the Revolution; now completely surrounded by the Drome department, it is officially included in the Vaucluse department as an enclave, "L'Enclave des Papes."
- From a viticultural perspective, this geographical aberration follows a terroir logic, resembling the clay-chalk and sandy soils common in Chateauneuf-des-Papes, Gigondas, and Vacqueras. The Grenache and Syrah growing to the south of Valreas also convey the power and complexity found in the red wines of its famous neighbors.
- Because the 2020 La Decelle Reserve benefits from the association with the Lavau family of estates and their expertise, resources needed to produce a consistent, high-caliber house style flow in as the needs arise.
