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2013 Saint Joseph Rouge

Domaine Faury
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Sweet, ripe, and dense,” “roasted notes from the oak,” and “black fruit jam” are some tasting-note descriptors about Saint Joseph found online within a few seconds of searching. Interesting, considering that seventeenth-century monks in the region wrote about the wine from these same hills as being “fresh and delicate.” A few thousand years prior to that, Plutarch explained how the Romans added pine tar to beef up their Saint Joe they viewed as too subtle (the Roman-day equivalent of new oak?). Faury is resolutely on the fresh, delicate, and subtle side of Saint Joseph, and that’s just the way we like it. Spices and pepper perfume the nose and the palate for a versatile, mid-weight, traditionally styled Saint Joseph. The monks would be proud. –Chris Santini

Technical Information
Wine Type: red
Vintage: 2013
Bottle Size: 750mL
Blend: 100% Syrah
Appellation: Saint Joseph
Country: France
Region: Northern Rhône
Producer: Domaine Faury
Winemaker: Lionel Faury
Vineyard: Planted between 1979 and 2007
Soil: Granite
Aging: Aged for 12 months in foudres (24 – 35 hl), demi-muids (600-L), barrels (228-L); only 10% new oak is used in the rotation of barrels
Farming: Lutte Raisonnée
Alcohol: 13%

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Inspiring Thirst

I want you to realize once and for all: Even the winemaker does not know what aging is going to do to a new vintage; Robert Parker does not know; I do not know. We all make educated (hopefully) guesses about what the future will bring, but guesses they are. And one of the pleasures of a wine cellar is the opportunity it provides for you to witness the evolution of your various selections. Living wines have ups and downs just as people do, periods of glory and dog days, too. If wine did not remind me of real life, I would not care about it so much.

Inspiring Thirst, page 171